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My article on Blackbelt productivity

As I said before, I wrote a (lengthy) article for the excellent Blackbeltproductivity blog in their "Blackbelt series". I feel really good about the article. Please check it out and let Jason, Michael and me know what you think. It is rather lengthy, but I hope it adresses some recognizable issues for every GTD-er. I talk about my dark pre-GTD days, my light(er) post-GTD days and the tools I use. Have fun!

21 06 06 - 15:59 - Permanent link - one comment

I'm a bit tired of writing...

Okay, this may come as no surprise, but lately I have become a bit tired of writing on blogs. It is not I hate writing, but most of the time I can't get myself around to get some real story or some sort of point in my articles. Since a lot things are changing for me the coming months I feel the writing becomes a bit obligatory. And that is one thing that should not happen. Me writing about GTD should be fun to do and gives me reflection to learn and grow. But lately, for some reason it just doesn't do it the way I want it to.

I would rather read someone's struggle in getting productive than talk/write about my own. And every now and again I think to myself: What does my blog contribute to all the other excellent GTD blogs out there? I am not fishing for compliments, please no, but the upcoming article on Blackbeltproductivity.net made me realize that I still have a very long way to go. Right now I am in a very turbulent period of my life. I will become a father for the first time, my house is being rebuilt and I accepted a new (strategic) function at my office. This all makes me fall back pretty easy to old habits and forget about simple things as cleaning an Inbox. But then again, everybody falls of the bandwagon right?

So does this mean the end of this blog? Hell no! But just a short break, announced this time, in my writing here. Just by announcing this, I feel better already. I don't have the pressure (not much, just a bit) of wanting to write for this blog but I will keep thinking and working about GTD. You may find me on some commentform or on mailinglist. And I will be back here ofcourse. Maybe in some weeks, maybe in some days. You never know with these kind of people :-)

19 06 06 - 22:50 - Permanent link - three comments

CoComments added to this blog!

16 06 06 - 10:09 - Permanent link - five comments

Unconferencing about GTD

Already a couple of days ago but so much fun to do. I was at the Reboot conference in Copenhagen last week. This conference is different from others, since the program is made up by the participants itself. There are some speakers but there are also some open slots for anyone to fill in with whatever they like. The vibe of the conference is very future oriented. People talk about Open Wifi Networks, Marketing 2.0, Co-creation and several other webrelated topics.
One speaker had a title of his talk: Bit Literacy: A New Strategy for Productivity in Your Bit-drenched Life. Sounded interesting enough to visit for me. But unfortunately this turned out to be more of a salespitch for an online emailreminderservice called GooToDo.com. Nothing wrong with that, seems like a good service, but not the information I was hoping for

06 06 06 - 09:00 - Permanent link - two comments