Collaboration. List. Calendar. Management. Writing. 9 Lists To Keep Updated, and Keep Handy - Stepcase Lifehack. I bought a Moleskine notebook a long time ago, and for a while it got zero use. My productivity system is totally digital and Web-based, as is my personal journal. I bought the Moleskine because it looked awesome, and because so many other people found it useful. The Moleskine, though, made its way into my pocket or backpack all the time, because of one simple use I found for it: a list manager.
Not a list of things to do, or people to call – different lists. That said, I’ve also discovered how useful it is to keep a small number of lists both updated and handy at all times, for a whole variety of uses. “Things I Want” Every year, people I know ask me what I want for my birthday, or for Christmas, or just because they love giving me gifts (that last would would be nice, huh?). If I get it, or don’t want it anymore, it goes away. “Gift Ideas” This one’s on the opposite side of gift-giving. “Got a Minute?” “Watch, Read, Listen” Another critical one for me, as a music and movie junkie.
BHAGs. The George Costanza Lifehack for Overcoming Fear and Anxiety - S. Despite what you may think, there are lifehacks to be learned from the television show Seinfeld. Take for example the episode “The Opposite”- George Costanza decides that every decision that he has ever made has been wrong, and that his life is the exact opposite of what it should be. George decides to do the opposite of everything he has done before, and great things begin to happen to him: What George inadvertently discovers is Victor Frankl’s lifehack for overcoming fear and anxiety, called paradoxical intention. How to use Paradoxical Intention If you want to overcome fear and anxiety (including obsessive-compulsiveness and phobias), do the opposite of what you ordinarily do- deliberately wish for that which you fear, in order to remove it.
As fitting with a Seinfeld episode, humor is the key to using paradoxical intention. How Paradoxical Intention Works Sweating Out Your Fears An example was given in Frankl’s book Man’s Search for Meaning. Paradoxical Intention is Not a Panacea. Master your to-do list with Tudumo - GTD software for Windows. 20 Great Tools to Keep Your Life Organized | zen habits. Photo by Teo Every Monday is Productivity & Organization Day at Zen Habits. It’s the ultimate quest of anyone trying to become more organized or productive: the ultimate organizing tool. And while that perfect tool may be different for each person, depending on your needs, the following list should have something perfect for just about anyone. Last week I shared some of the best organizing tips from you, the readers, and it was a hit. So this week, I’d like to share some of the best reader-submitted organizing tools. Let me please say that you should not try to adopt too many of these tools, and you certainly shouldn’t waste too much time trying them all out.
Google Calendar. How to Make Stikkit into Your Personal GTD Powerhouse · The Cran. (If you’re interested in Stikkit, you might also enjoy this handy little program I wrote to import your Gmail contacts into Stikkit, or maybe adding Stikkits directly from your desktop with WinStikker!) As most of my regular readers probably already know, I’m terribly impressed with Stikkit. Sure, it’s a little rough around the edges, but my goodness is it ever slick. In a previous post, I described how bummed I was that Stikkit wasn’t designed around GTD (selfish, selfish me). There has been a somewhat-active discussion around Stikkit + GTD in the Stikkit Forums, but it doesn’t appear that they ever arrived at a solution.
Any proposed solution involved a fundamental change to the software instead of a more creative approach. Well, dear readers, I’m happy to say that I think I’ve figured out a pretty keen way to use Stikkit as a functional, usable GTD system. To do this properly, you are going to be creating and managing a very large (bordering on obscene) amount of Stikkits. Projects.