Getting Things Done

Posted 14 Jun 2010

10 Points to Note when you are Speaking...

In today’s world, the run of the mill for presenting a topic in a classroom environment is to run a powerpoint presentation and use that as a reference to orient your speech. I have been in the IT industry for close to ten years and have heard hundreds if not thousands of speakers, good and bad alike. The good ones… Continue »
Posted 27 Apr 2010

Is Collective Wisdom Any Good?

One of my constant preachings to my protégés is to stay apart from the crowd and move in a direction that cuts across the masses. I have always believed it and have been a staunch follower of this theory. An old friend who I had not seen in sometime met up with me for a drink last night, and challenged me… Continue »
Posted 30 Mar 2010

Exercise: How to motivate yourself and...

The benefits of exercise are numerous, so stop procrastinating and hit the gym — here’s how! Exercise, like any other hard work you do, needs motivation and in some people’s cases more than others. There have to be things we can do to keep the focus and remain interested in exercising. The other thing about motivation is you usually find it only… Continue »
Posted 05 Sep 2009

The Importance of Task Managers in...

One of the important drivers in getting things done is to have a good list manager or what we call in common terms, a task manager. The role of this manager is as a repository for the activities that you want to do and probably check it off once done. Task managers need not be on a computer. In fact, you… Continue »
Posted 03 Sep 2009

Use Keyboard over Mouse to Improve...

Sure, you have heard this before. But, do you know the reason behind this logic? Well, most of us use keyboard mostly to key in text and get our work done with it. The time taken to switch from keyboard to mouse is the time that is getting wasted and to add onto it, once you hold the mouse in your… Continue »
Posted 20 Aug 2009

Getting Things Done : Reach Your Happy...

We all have things that we need to get done, at some point or another. What we need to do is highly subjective but how we do it effectively is definitely connected. And, this is the premise for this post. Suppose you have multiple jobs to get done and lets call them A, B, C, D and so on. With all… Continue »