Technical Difficulties

I wrote this piece today…and then posted it shortly thereafter. I don’t normally do that. Up until I started writing it, I had no idea what I was going to write about today. Sure, I had ideas of what I could write about today, but I didn’t actually feel like writing any of those. Today […]

Assessing Workflow

I started to give my workflow a good look during my reassessment — and then I listened to Matt Alexander on Bionic #57 discussing the very idea of workflows. Matt’s always made a lot of sense (my buddy Michael Schechter goes into things a little deeper in this post over at Workflowing), so I began

The Labour

Today we celebrate the achievement of the labourer — the worker. That means you and me. So let’s look at what labour is. Labour is defined as the following: “productive work, especially physical toil done for wages.” But that’s only the first definition. There are several others where “labour” is a noun, including: difficult or

Assessing Projects

After assessing my priorities first, the next thing to look at during my reassessment were my projects. This took some time as I’ve got many projects in various stages of completion, and the tough part was making sure I placed them in one of the following categories: Pursue: Keep moving forward on the project. Pause:

Assessing Priorities

I recently assessed everything I had going on, and the first place I decided to look was the aspect of my life that would have the greatest impact on my projects and workflow: my priorities. By reassessing priorities first, the rest of the assessment becomes more aligned not only with where I am now…but with

Winding Down the Week

This week has been a full one, which included a ton of writing yesterday. It was also a week full of happenings elsewhere, and I thought I’d shine a bit of a spotlight on them in this post. The Better Guy Show Gary Miller of A Better Guy was kind enough to have me on

The Process

The process is far from easy. Sometimes the procedures get in the way of the process. The checking (or completing) of tasks that are to be done put the process in jeopardy. The assessing of tasks (or projects) on the list put the process on hold. The distractions and disruptions that are part of everyday

The Need to Assess

“The only way to make a spoilt machine work again is to break it down, work on its inner system and fix it again. Screw out the bolts of your life, examine and work on yourself, fix your life again and get going.” ― Israelmore Ayivor Yesterday was supposed to be a big writing day.

A Lesson from “About a Boy” on Hyper-Scheduling

I recently read a piece in The Globe & Mail where one of the top tips to get things done was to “calendarize everything”. I’ll respectfully disagree on that one. Why? Well, when you schedule everything you’ve got — locking down a time of day to work on things — you give yourself no room