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Success Practice: Don’t Watch TV, Read Books

4 June, 2010 (10:13) | Productivity, Success | By: Aaron

This is the first in a series that will detail a few practices that lead to success in today’s society.  The focus isn’t on providing principles of success, but methods that you can put into practice right now that will eventually lead to greater success.

Eliminate Stress with GTD

12 May, 2010 (10:08) | Health and Fitness, Productivity | By: Aaron

Today’s topic is on Stress Reduction with the Getting Things Done (GTD) system. If you would like more information about GTD then I would highly recommend reading the book.  You can get it here. For more tools that work with the GTD system be sure to check out the Productivity category and for more tips [...]

Productivity Tool: The Perfect Task Manager

27 April, 2010 (11:47) | iPhone/iPad Apps, Productivity | By: Aaron

Previously I mentioned SmartTime by Left Coast Logic as the best calendar App because it enables you to see day specific tasks in addition to appointments.  However if you’re familiar with Getting Things Done (GTD) then you know that you should also have a place to simply list what needs to be done, but isn’t [...]

Productivity Tool: The Best Calendar App

20 April, 2010 (10:24) | iPhone/iPad Apps, Productivity | By: Aaron

I’ve been waiting to share this one for a while.  One of the things that I had been wanting to find was an application that would synchronize my calendar with my task list.  One of the problems that I’ve ran into is not seeing my tasks enough.  My fault, I know, but I needed to [...]

Productivity Tool: Build Fences Around Your Internet Sites

5 April, 2010 (06:30) | Productivity | By: Aaron

Leechblock is a great program that I found a few months ago.  I first heard about it in The 4-Hour Workweek.  The basic concept is that it works with Firefox to minimize your productivity and minimize your procrastination and distractions. Leechblock, to my knowledge, only works with Firefox (sorry IE, Chrome, and Safari users, see [...]