63 Spring Cleaning Tips

Here is a list of 63 ways to help you with your spring cleaning. 1. One Room at a Time: Pick a room in your house/office and start there, don’t move rooms until you com­plete that room. Com­part­men­tal­iz­ing a larger build­ing by rooms makes orga­niz­ing seem far less daunt­ing. I rec­om­mend start­ing with the room that is most orga­nized, it will take the least amount of time and give you a visual goal for the rest of the home. 2. Have You Used It in the... Read More

Why Task Management Apps Still Suck

Not a day goes by where I don’t use my task man­age­ment apps in some form. For that rea­son there is not a day that I am not let down by those very apps. The Prob­lem The cur­rent slate of task man­age­ment apps are not what we, the users, need. They are loaded with fea­tures that look great on web­sites, in pro­mo­tional videos and var­i­ous other mar­ket­ing tools, but are utterly use­less in real life usage. (It is impor­tant to note that I am talk­ing... Read More

Why I Use OmniFocus

I have, and con­tinue to try all sorts of new task man­age­ment pro­grams out there, from the sim­ple Taskpa­per to the more com­plex solu­tions such as Lotus Notes. Every time, with­out fail, I come full cir­cle back to Omni­Fo­cus. I found myself ask­ing myself what it is about Omni­Fo­cus that keeps me com­ing back, and what it is about Omni­Fo­cus that keeps me want­ing to try new programs. The Why As it turns out the ‘why’ of the ques­tion is fairly... Read More

Clutter Distracts. A Blank Page Inspires.

The same is true with a clut­ter free desk. I have on occa­sion writ­ten about clean­li­ness, clear desks, desk­top zen and your envi­ron­ment in gen­eral and how it can effect your pro­duc­tiv­ity. I have shared what my desk looks like a few times now, and each time you can see that I strive to keep it mostly empty. I have had com­ments from peo­ple who just don’t under­stand make com­ments about the way my desk and office appear. They often joke that I must... Read More

Say ‘No’ to Post-It Notes

Long before I started writ­ing this blog, I walked in to a per­sons office who was/is a con­sul­tant for large cor­po­ra­tions. This per­son is a pub­lished author who reg­u­larly meets with and coaches CEOs of large com­pa­nies. When I walked into the office I had to hold back a chuckle. The desk, com­puter, win­dow and cab­i­nets in this per­sons office was cov­ered in Post-It notes. Yel­low, green, pink, blue – they were all there. These notes had all... Read More

On Hinderances to Productivity.

(note: This post was cre­ated to help me retain my focus and try to fig­ure out how I spend my time, and why I spend it the way I do.) With multi-tasking I accom­plished noth­ing, with single-tasking I accom­plish what I want. Accom­plish­ing what I want to accom­plish and not what I need to accom­plish sounds counter intu­itive — most pro­duc­tiv­ity sys­tems teach you how to do things that you need to get done. Not the things that you want to get done, often... Read More

NowDoThis

Now­DoThis only shows you one to do item at a time, you can’t see the next until you have done the cur­rent task. This is very sim­plis­tic, and straight­for­ward. It could be help­ful to some, and use­less to oth­ers. Inter­est­ing idea.  Read More

A Secret to Happiness? Don’t Get Organized.

Gretchen Rubin: The title is a lit­tle mis­lead­ing, the premise here is stated above. If you want to save time, and be hap­pier stop orga­niz­ing every­thing. Instead get rid of the junk that you don’t need and don’t want, then orga­nize what is left. You may find your­self left with noth­ing to organize. via The Hap­pi­ness Project.  Read More

12 Tips for an Organized Desk

Some great tips here for orga­niz­ing your desk. Link.  Read More

How to Be an Organized Student

Some really great tips here for students. Link.  Read More