“Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.” — Steve Jobs Human mortality is one of the strongest forces we have, helping us focus on what is truly important, and pushing us to get things done. Imagine…
Tag: Getting Things Done
The Best Habits I Started in 2019
I love building new habits. Also, breaking them. Here are the best ones I started in 2019: Guided journalingEvery morning, I do guided journaling, using the Stoic Routine App. It helps me to reflect, letting off steam and re-focus on what is truly important. I’m practicing this for a full year now, and the benefits…
What I learned from Sam Zemurray, America’s Banana King
My learnings from The Fish That Ate The Whale about Sam Zemurray: Fire people who can’t get the job done, and replace them by people who can. Fast decisions. Don’t nibble. Get things done. Get your hands dirty. Work hard. Go out to the fields with the machete. “We are here, they are there.” Make…
How I Simplified My Life
Well, it’s been a while since my last blog-post :-). Since REWORK inspired me to share more stuff, I’ll now share how I simplified my life in the past months and years. Ever since I’ve read The 4-Hour Workweek simplification became one of my key principles of life. Since then, my selective perception kicked in and…
Self-Organisation for Effectiveness
Pretty good summary of the Getting Things Done method: (via nicozorn) Important lessons: Get things out of your head into your inbox! Then process your inbox into projects and process every project into actionable items. I’ve done this for 8 months now and it works very well! Focus on one thing. Focus on the next…
How I got my emails under control
Preface Until November 2007 my e-mail-handling was a MESS! My inbox was full of JUNK and I had no SYSTEM. So basically I started hating e-mail. But then on my trip to Silicon Valley I finally read David Allen’s Getting Things Done and things started changing. I’m using the system for almost 4 months now…