Stephan Miller

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When you do a lot of things, you have to have a system of priorities. I say that and yet I can also say that I get sidetracked about 50% of the time. There are [...]

Habits are hard to break. Habits are hard to create. Any productivity book I have read that doesn’t state those two points clearly goes in one ear and out the other. I liked Zen to Done because it’s simplicity states that. Go ahead, give 450 rules and I might as well not start.
But even in [...]

 
Repeating Myself
Now let’s see if I can write this post without repeating myself. Or I will have to start calling my blog 101 ways to look at productivity. But I guess that’s the way it goes. If I looked at the concept of productivity I held a few months ago I would have to laugh. [...]

I’ve been a slacker for a couple of weeks now. The money has been good, so I slowed down. Not here at my blog, but with other projects. It’s a habit I know well and one that has sabotaged me a lot.
I ran into a place where I became comfortable. "Oh, this is nice. I [...]

I revisit the topic of schedules every so often because schedules are evolving things. The reason why Zen to Done works for me is that it minimizes the importance of the calendar. I do most of this in my free time, using that term very loosely. I do get a scheduled hour and a half [...]

I carry a Moleskine around to write random ideas down which I later put in a bigger notebook which consist of to do list, article ideas, half finished articles and marketing ideas.
I only recently pulled my head out of my ass and set Firefox up to reopen all the tabs the next time I use [...]

Maybe I don’t have a good bookkeeping system or maybe affiliate marketing has too many ups and downs to calculate an average or maybe I am just a straight idiot for trying to to this without an accountant, but I need an @money category of lists.
Both Getting Things Done and Zen to Done use lists. [...]

I like the concept of big rocks. I have a lot of project lists, but very limited time to do them. But cutting the active projects down to two or three, everything else just gets filed for a while. I keep a checklist of daily blogging, research, and social networking tasks. I add to lists [...]

David Allen is a control freak. Sorry to say that, but the twists and turns of his system had me slacking. There was just too much. I don’t have room for a tickler file in my backpack. I downloaded software for GTD like Thinking Rock to test it out. There are too many steps to [...]

I am a GTD covert. I thought it was a new thing until I read the book. But it doesn’t quite fit everyone’s tastes. For one, I have no one to delegate to currently and when I do it will probably be through the internet where it will automatically be placed on a "Waiting For" [...]