GTD — Pitching In And Catching On.
Teresa Amabile: Track Your Small Wins to Motivate Big Accomplishments. It turns out that taking just five minutes a day to document your work progress and feelings can have a powerful impact.
After analyzing over 238 diaries from happy workers, Teresa Amabile shares key takeaways for staying motivated at work, including the importance of measuring progress, documenting challenges, and taking time to reflect. Teresa Amabile is a professor and director of research at Harvard Business School, and coauthor of The Progress Principle. A psychologist, Teresa studies how everyday work life can influence people and their performance. Her research encompasses creativity, productivity, innovation, and inner work life — the confluence of emotions, perceptions, and motivation that people experience as they react to events at work.
Based on research into nearly 12,000 daily diary entries from over 200 professionals inside organizations, The Progress Principle illuminates how everyday events at work can impact employee well-being and performance. Frequently Asked Questions on 43 Things. “I am doing 43 things” People have known for years that making a list of goals is the best way to achieve them.
But most of us never get around to making a list. 43 Things is great for that! Make a list on 43 Things and see what changes happen in your life. Best of all it’s a way of connecting with other enthusiasts interested in everything from watching a space shuttle launch to grow my own vegetables. Förändring. SMARTA mål - Metoder & verktyg - Landstinget i Kalmar län.
Task Scoresheet. The Printable CEO™ Series. NOTE The “Productivity Tools” menu supercedes this page.
Check it out The Printable CEO™ (PCEO) was born from a desire to focus my time more productively. For me, that means things that make my freelance practice sustainable and fun. The Printable CEO name comes from the idea that a good CEO should focus primarily on those things that move the company forward; since I can’t afford to hire my own CEO, being able to print one out seemed like the next best thing! :-) In general, I use only one form at a time depending on what my needs are at the moment: High Level Goal Tracking for Freelancers and Small Business Owners - Download the Concrete Goals Tracker (CGT)Project-level Task Tracking - Download the Task Progress Tracker (TPT)Realistic Daily Planning - Download the Emergent Task Planner (ETP)Keeping Track of Planned versus Unplanned Stuff that Happens - Download the Emergent Task Timer (ETT)Keeping Track of Individual Task Assignments - Download the Task Order Up (TOU) The Task Order Up!
Creating New Year’s Resolutions with the Concrete Goals Tracker. Day Zero - The Home of the 101 Things in 1001 Days Project. The 100 Things List. GOAL DATE: May 17th, 2011 (My 36th bday!)
My list of things for the 101 things project, featured on this site. I was looking through some of the lists posted on the master list, and was inspired by the folks who categorized their lists into sections. Categories are almost as good as lists, and combined together they are a superpower not to be equaled. I've spent a couple days coming up with the list. Some of these items I will happily and easily accomplish. TRAVEL1.Spend Christmas with the family in London.2.Do the train tour in Copper Canyon, Mexico. Write Every Day. I do a lot of work with self-improvement and creativity in and around my website at [chrisbrogan.com], and one really common "wish" I hear from friends and readers is constant: "I wish I could have the energy [ability/ skills / ideas] to write every day. " Congratulations. I've granted your wish.
Gather close. I'll tell you the secret. This is it. The secret to writing every day is to write every day. Let's look at the problems or the excuses or the reasons why people claim they aren't able to achieve their goal of writing every day. Cut back (stop!) Lack of talent, skill or ideas always follows "time" for excuses people tell me why they don't write daily. Read every day, not just in your genre or subject. Most of the limitations and problems and reasons we put upon ourselves with regards to our lack of ability or time (or your excuse here) with writing are really just excuses.
And don't forget to consider the fact that what you love to read may not be what you were meant to write. Five Things You Need to Know About Effective Habit Change. Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Ian Newby-Clark, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada who studies habit change.
As a psychology professor who has studied habit change for several years, I have some advice about effective habit change. My advice is general. How Long to Form a Habit? Shareshareshareshare Research reveals a curved relationship between practice and automaticity.
Say you want to create a new habit, whether it’s taking more exercise, eating more healthily or writing a blog post every day, how often does it need to be performed before it no longer requires Herculean self-control? Clearly it’s going to depend on the type of habit you’re trying to form and how single-minded you are in pursuing your goal. But are there any general guidelines for how long it takes before behaviours become automatic? Ask Google and you’ll get a figure of somewhere between 21 and 28 days. Unless you’re in the habit of sawing off your own arm, this is not particularly relevant. Doing without thinking Now, however, there is some psychological research on this question in a paper recently published in the European Journal of Social Psychology.
The Habit Change Cheatsheet: 29 Ways to Successfully Ingrain a Behavior. We are what we repeatedly do.
Effectively forming new habits.