I’ve been pondering over this for some time now. Today I decided to take action and change this dormant blog into something more active.
It was a tell-tale sign that I forgot the password to the blog and more so the drafts I found that were over 2 years old. Publishing one on my Getting Things [...]
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A new start
April 11th, 2008 No Comments
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Getting Things Done
June 9th, 2007 No Comments
Al jaren ben ik een fan van Getting Things Done, en vandaag, na het lezen van de zoveelste blog besloot ik om er maar eens over te schrijven.
Terugrekenend realiseerde ik me dat ik al eind 2000, begin 2001 tegen GTD aangelopen ben. In het begin was ik er nog van overtuigd dat ik het wel [...]
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How did I Get Things Done?
August 18th, 2006 1 Comment
Years ago I could brag about my interrupt driven approach to work. There was no problem at all for colleagues to ask me to solve a problem while I was in the middle of a totally different task. I could easily set aside the work, find a solution to their problem, often chatting to my [...]
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Mindfulness
April 23rd, 2006 No Comments
Mindfulness, het idee om je uitsluitend te focussen op hetgeen je nu mee bezig bent, ben ik al een paar keer tegen gekomen. Maar ik was er altijd trots op dat ik twee (of meer) dingen tegelijk kon. Eerlijk gezegd, denk ik dat je daar ook niet onderuit komt als je je leven moet organiseren [...]
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Revelatie
April 13th, 2006 1 Comment
Als een schaap over de dam is…. Na de onthulling van een collega, besluit ik dan toch ook maar eens een post aan het een en ander te wijden.
Ik ken het begrip procrastination (als vertaler zou ik spreken over uitstelgedrag) al jaren en ben ook al even zo lang bezig om ertegen te strijden. Zolang [...]
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Just doing it
December 31st, 2005 1 Comment
When browsing the web I came across this post by Robert Blum. It sounds so simple and then I realised: I had done this before! One day, some years ago I decided to get through a large backlog of magazines. Something like 2 years’ worth of monthly computer magazines. Starting on the first it [...]
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Finishing open loops
December 31st, 2005 1 Comment
Yesterday I realized that finishing an open loop does not necessarily mean doing the obvious.
When looking for a specific jigsaw puzzle in the attic I found a huge project: a 5000 pieces puzzle of Rembrandt’s Nightwatch. I got it from an old relative when he found out that I liked jigsaw puzzles. I’ve tried finishing [...]
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One drawback…
December 24th, 2005 No Comments
The list of finished projects is very stimulating to finish more projects and add them to the list. There is one drawback: working on bigger projects needs Next Actions and finished Next Actions are not recorded.
However, there is a paradox: I never liked the GTD systems that use a text file for marking off Next [...]
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My New Year’s resolution
December 24th, 2005 No Comments
I’ve read and reread David Allen’s Getting Things Done book several times in the past few years and every time I find something new in it. I know I should start implementing the system by following his process of mindsweep, setting up folders and lists and contexts and start working. Been there, done that and [...]
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