I just received a tweet from a follower asking that I stop spamming him with ads. Do I spam with ads? Well, sort of. I've scheduled four tweets in the last week to go out advertising my upcoming Do-It Days™, interspersed with three or four times as many...
Productivity
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Use An Editor!
If you want to produce extremely high-quality work, it may be wise to find someone to help. It's hard to be objective about our own work. Almost by definition, we believe if we did it, it must be good. But yet, sometimes an objective eye can help us take our good work...
How do you deal with fundamental overload?
When you've made real commitments that add up to 100%+ of the time/mental energy you have available, how do you deal with it? I'm in that situation at the moment and find myself debating whether to concentrate on one thing, get it done (while other things fall by the...
You have to want to succeed as much as you want to breathe. Really?
“When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful.” That’s great if it’s your only option, but there are other ways.
Email Overload – Where the CEO of Xerox and I Disagree
As you probably know, I've launched my You Are Not Your Inbox, so I'm revisiting some of my old thoughts about Email Overload. Tim Sanders wrote a blog entry that references a Business Week article ("What's So Bad about Information Overload?") on information overload...
Give Yourself Some Slack Time
One of the most important things that I've learned is that you can only be up to 100% efficient - you can't get 25 hours of work done in a day. How do you know when you're at the point of diminishing returns? We all want to believe we can add one more thing to our...
I’m still not convinced Inbox Zero is necessary
Time spent processing email simply isn’t necessarily time well spent. If you’re going to argue with that statement, show me the data.
Inbox Zero and the Critical Mistake That Saps Productivity
Inbox Zero is an obsession with many people. I propose that Inbox Zero is often a waste of time, and people over-emphasize email’s importance.
Safely Using Social Media In Your Professional Life
Q: Hi Stever (and GIDG fans), I'm dreading creating separate professional twitter/facebook accounts because I don't want to come up with another name (other than my own) and start building my network all over again. But I'm afraid I'll bore my friends (who aren't in...
Your stereotypes may blind you to opportunity
Stereotypes can blind us to the people in our everyday lives who can become great business partners, associates, customers, and maybe even family members.