Yesterday I spoke at IdeaWave 2012, with an abridged version of a talk I’ve been working on. The talk — for the purposes of yesterday’s event — was known simply as Mindfulness 2.0, but it was only part of a broader concept that I refer to as The Productivity Shift. It runs along similar lines

A friend of mine, Jodie Gastel, sent me some information on Facebook that made me both chuckle and think at the same time.

I’m all for planning. I’m really big on the whole “fail to plan, plan to fail” business. But there is one area of your life that people seem to plan that should be left as well enough alone as possible — or perhaps even eliminated: The Personal Category. Now I’m not suggesting that you don’t

With Victoria’s IdeaWave conference set to hit the Ambrosia Conference & Event Centre this weekend (my talk is slated for Sunday afternoon), I thought it’d be a swell idea to revist my talk from last year called The Power of Paper. Below you’ll find my speaking notes from the talk, but before I get to

There’s such a thing as too much…of everything. Too much noise. Too much food. Too much thinking. And there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that. Except when we put it out there for everyone to see. Social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter (and even the new kid on the block, Pinterest) thrive on the activity

In my short time with Asana, I’ve already found a few things that it handles better than OmniFocus – and I’m talking beyond the whole team collaboration thing here. It all has to do with adaptability.

People seem to avoid productivity systems because they don’t like systems. Because systems generally only work when you make sure that every part of it works. So if you’re “doing GTD”, then you need to do every part of it in order for it to be effective. And for GTD to be truly GTD, that

I’m taking a page from my wife today. She’s been posting on Facebook for pretty much every day a person for whom she wants to express gratitude towards. She got the idea from one of her friends (or a friend of a friend), and as I was reviewing old post from my old Tumblr blog

After a month of not recording a Talking is Dead podcast with Anthony Marco, we did so last night. So now I think it’s a monthly podcast. Maybe.