Productivity is very difficult to achieve in the absence of a workable system. You have to have a system that can dictate the workflow of your projects and the underlying tasks. You may not be practicing a mainstream productivity system right now but, whether you agree or not, you are in fact already following a certain kind of a "system" in the guise of your working patterns or arrangements.
Continue reading...Saturday, September 4, 2010
Since it's a custom for GTD'ers to describe their personal implementation of the system, I feel I'm bound by the same custom and owe it to my blog readers to share with them my simplified implementation of the GTD system. Let me make it clear, though, that this is in no way close to the real GTD system that includes a lot of other stuff and processes. This implementation is simplistic and, obviously, personal. This is what works for me and may not necessarily work for others.
Continue reading...Tuesday, August 31, 2010
The state of being productive doesn't just happen overnight. It is brought about by full dedication and constant diligence. It is not a quality or quantity subject to measurement or metrics on a dashboard or performance sheet. Productivity is an attitude toward work - a way of life. It is by itself a state of being. It is not a condition of having done something but of doing.
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 14, 2010

The Habit Of Celebrating Milestones is the most important among the three practices (Habit Of To-Do List, Habit Of GTD, and Habit of Celebrating Milestones). Its purpose is to avert the possibility of monotony. The antagonist of maintaining a constant workflow in the workplace is the tendency to fall back to the old ways. The GTD system is prone to constant disruption; that is why a constant care of the system is necessary. You do not want to head on to rigidity. You must celebrate each milestone.
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Saturday, September 18, 2010
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