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Productivity. AE Quo. Asian Efficiency - Time Management and Productivity. Google's Ranking System, OKR. The Pomodoro Technique™ What is The Pomodoro Technique?

The Pomodoro Technique™

EASY for anyone to use! Improves productivity IMMEDIATELY! FUN to do! Why Pomodoro? The Pomodoro Technique isn’t like any other time-management method on the market today. For many people, time is an enemy. Essential to the Pomodoro Technique is the notion that taking short, scheduled breaks while working eliminates the “running on fumes” feeling you get when you’ve pushed yourself too hard. Whether it’s a call, a Facebook message, or suddenly realizing you need to change the oil in your car, many distracting thoughts and events come up when you’re at work.

Most of us are intimately acquainted with the guilt that comes from procrastinating. Who does the technique work for? These are all ways real folks use the Pomodoro Technique: Motivate yourself to write.Limit distractions.Keep track of how long you’re spending brainstorming / writing / revising.Reduce back and neck pain by walking around during Pomodoro breaks.Draft a book in three weeks.

How It works. As a low effort GTD tool « Licorize' Blog. Licorize is not associated in any form with Mr.

as a low effort GTD tool « Licorize' Blog

David Allen or its company, When referring to the GTD book, we will refer to Piatkus edition 2009. Here we consider Licorize as a tool which can help in using the Getting Things Done methodology. We also briefly introduce the methodology. Getting Things Done, also abbreviated as GTD, is a popular time management productivity method created by David Allen. It is presented in this book, though I find Mr. Personally I am quite skeptical of any “personal coaching” ideology, but Mr. Licorize is not just a GTD tool: it is basically an idea collector that is compatible with several GTD practices. GTD’s methodology is a way to make an agreement with oneself, about managing “ideas overload” – not to be confused with information overload: the overload GTD wants to relieve is internal, self generated, not due to external sources.

My summary of GTD In basket Licorize facilitates putting everything that you are taking a mental note of in the basket. The art of the doable to-do list. Separate your email from your to-do's. Empty Your Inbox with the Trusted Trio. Getting into the Weekly Review habit. Practicing Simplified GTD. Original Inbox Zero Articles (2006) Looking for the Inbox Zero video?

The full 1-hour video for Merlin’s Inbox Zero pre­sen­ta­tion at Google is avail­able for free over here — or check out this 43 Folders post for more infor­ma­tion about the video. What’s “Inbox Zero?” These links point to the orig­i­nal Inbox Zero Series that Merlin wrote for 43 Folders in 2006. They cover the skills, tools, and atti­tudes that can help empty your email inbox — and then keep it that way. You can visit each of the posts by click­ing the title. Also, don’t miss the “Related Articles” below for more of Merlin’s most pop­u­lar posts on deal­ing with email. Posts in the Inbox Zero series Related arti­cles These are, to date (2006−03−13), our most pop­u­lar posts on email and were recently col­lected in a recap arti­cle, “Becoming an Email Ninja.” Test Your GTD-IQ.