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It doesn’t matter how nice your calendar is, if its on your computer and networked to your phone/email/contacts/dog/tv/etc, or if its tacked to your wall, or if its a pocket-sized one that you carry with you everywhere. They all have the same shortcoming:

If you do not update it, it does you no good. And along those lines, if you never look at it (which implies you never update it) it does absolutely no good.

A calendar exists to keep us informed about things that are happening. It can not do its job if you do not keep it up to date with important and current information.

Can you tell I just found out that I forgot to put something on my calendar that was somewhat important?

My plan to disconnect from the internet at work in order to focus (And therefore be more productive) has hit a snag. Or rather, my lack of a plan has hit a snag.

I did not have a plan concerning what I would focus on. As a result, I had no direction in which to focus my energies. And if you don’t have a direction… you go no where.

This all goes back to the GTD principle of the To Do list. Before attempting to focus, one needs to make sure there is something to focus on (i.e. have items on your To Do list that you can act on).

My definition of multitasking:

The ability to perform many tasks poorly at the same time.

Everyone wants us to multitask. We want to multitask in order to get more things done. However, since you are not concentrating on any single thing, you wind up not doing as good of a job as you wanted to on not just one, but several tasks.

This happened to me this weekend. It was a swift kick to the morale and as a result I wound up not doing anything productive. That’s a bad cycle to get stuck in.

Small related and grouped tasks lead to finished tasks. And finished tasks means you got something done, which means you took care of business.

I can’t believe I’m going to admit this, but I watched the Will Smith movie “Hitch” the other night and Mr. Smith said something that I thought was really memorable.

Begin each day as if it were on purpose.

That is a good nugget of wisdom. I’m putting that in this blog to serve as inspiration, with a solid thought like that, you can get a lot of things done.
Tags: wisdom