


How to Feed Commitments into your Productivity System
When you first set up a personal productivity system, you’ll have put the three main elements of the system in place. Hopefully, you’ve also put the next few weeks of appointments in your calendar and gathered your current list of tasks. That’s substantial progress. Next, we need to look at how to add commitments to…


Setting Up a Productivity System
In previous posts we’ve looked at the benefits of a personal productivity system. We’ve also looked at the three main elements of that system. It’s now time to get your calendar and task manager working for you. Put aside some time to work purely on setting up your systems. I recommend a full morning, or…

To List or Not to List
To list or not to list, that is the question! Some people hate having a list of everything they must do. They find it depressing, or demotivating. Hate It A lengthy list is exceedingly difficult to manage. Difficult tasks end up forgotten, or ignored, at the bottom of the list. Everything that needs doing gets…