The Productivity Show #28 - Cameron’s little time saver!
It’s been a while, but here it is, the next show, with me, Tony Goodson, and a special guest (Cameron Reilly) who gives us a special tip on how to save the most time, certainly in his life! This show was easy, I skyped Cameron, and just sat back whilst he talked and talked and talked.
The irony of 9 months to make the next productivity show!
Productivity Buddy System - Find a buddy to check in weekly with and talk between you about what’s working and what’s not working.
Dealing with email - GTD gmail plugin. Firefox better gmail add-on. Putting filters on incoming email
Dealing with Distractions - Distractions as rewards. (10+2)x5. Xnote stopwatch. Less=More
Making 1 year goals happen - Doing today what makes a difference in a year’s time. Non Urgent but Important. Doing the numbers. Get your buddy to help
A Perfect Mess - A book on being messy
Filing in Bins! - GTD Filing system
Moleskine - One way to not do a Productivity Show! Separate Books -Daily Tasks, Big Ideas, Work Things
PDAs for audio capture of ideas
Three level capture system - Filofax Diary, Outlook for Task and Phone Calls, MindMap or Spreadsheet Overview
GiroQ - Capture ideas and actions for Mindjet’s MindManager MindMaps
Mindmap Desktop to Drag and Drop on to Mindmanager
GTD Projects - Anything with more than one action. Taking small physical actions (Widgets). MindManager Templates for GTD
Horizons of Focus - Levels of organisation in your life
Weekly Review - Make sure you review your whole system once every week
Go to the cafe without your Laptop - Mind Sweep. What’s getting in the way of my productivity. What’s the next action
Footballers’ Favourites - Leo Sayer and The Shadows etc!
June 17th, 2007 at 5:46 pm
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June 17th, 2007 at 5:50 pm
BTW dude, since our chat I’ve been using the MindManager GTD template I mentioned (LINK) and I’m pretty excited about it. It’s taking me a while to work out how to set it up and use it, defining my projects, etc, but I think this might be the new central part of my day! Thanks for the tip off.
June 18th, 2007 at 12:11 am
Nice show Tony I enjoyed it. Welcome to the network!
Maybe we should get you onto the Global Geek to have a chat about geek productivity? Very much productivity 101 - I am new to it :) The other thing is that the “Geek” is probably the most easily distracted and lead astray beast. As well as that they suffer from ADD in a major way. So it would be great to have your perspective and how we can more efficiently get stuff done - geek style!
Just so you are aware - I am moving and will be off line for a week or so. But please feel free to contact me and we can chat about it after I have moved and - the isp comes good with the 8MB internet connection :)
Keep up the great work and well done for the “first” show. I just had a thought - if you want a geek on the show then look me up - I’ll have some time during the hiatus from the show :)
June 18th, 2007 at 7:01 am
Cam after getting all inspired chatting with Tony I expect your weekly review to be done by 10am Monday (today) ;-)
Your productivity buddy
June 18th, 2007 at 8:56 am
Good to see that The Buddy and The Geek are now inspired!
June 18th, 2007 at 10:35 am
Great to have the show back. After months of waiting I can finally get my productivity fix.
You could probably manage to run the entire show by calling up Cam and giving him small prompts. He’s certainly never short on things to say :-)
You’ve prompted me to properly assess my goals. Goal making is never really something I’ve gotten around to properly but I think that given I’m currently making the temporary switch from student to productive member of society the primary focus of my life has shifted so it strikes me as a good time to assess my goals.
Thanks for a great show, and I’m looking forward to the next one
June 19th, 2007 at 3:46 am
Café without the laptop is a favorite of mine: Great post!
June 19th, 2007 at 9:01 pm
Oh Tony just to let you know when I called Cam at around 10:15 on Monday he was doing his weekly review ;-)
BTW great show, offer still stands if you need another victim, oh sorry guest ;-)
June 25th, 2007 at 7:01 pm
Hi Tony…
Finally listened to the show on my way home from work tonight. Great stuff. Am reading GTD at the moment.
I wish I could get into Mindmapping…. but it just has never clicked for me. How about a show on Mind Mapping for folks like me? I’ll even be a Guinea Pig for you if you want…
June 25th, 2007 at 7:03 pm
Hey by the way… Loved the 10+2×5 stuff… best tip I have had in ages! Also using the 2 Cold Calls a day from SnogFrog Blog. Thanks!
June 26th, 2007 at 9:23 am
thanks for getting the show back on, I look forward to hearing more of the different perspective that Tony brings.
I had been using a wiki based tool for managing projects and tasks as it automated the whole ‘next task’ thing but I am starting to think that writing them out again, kind of like lines at school, would reinforce me to get those pesky tasks finally done.
July 6th, 2007 at 3:08 am
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