My friend tweeted me about how obnoxious web popups are. You know the kind: you’re reading a web page and your reading is interrupted by a pop-up urging you to join a mailing list or buy a product. It’s a total interruption, and almost everyone clicks past the popup....
Productivity
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Websites to help keep new years resolutions
Web sites to help with New Years resolutions.
Please don’t steal my products.
If you steal products, you motivate the quality producers to leave the market. I just saw my product posted on a file sharing board. I’m not flattered, I’m just pissed.
Establishing a new habit
Today's Get-it-Done Guy episode deals with how to form a new habit. Becoming more productive, setting new years resolutions, brushing your teeth differently ... any sort of behavior change involves, well, changing behavior. Unfortunately, humans aren't very good at...
Beliefs destroy success: miserable Silicon Valley millionaires
As you know from reading chapter one of Get-it-Done Guy's 9 Steps to Work Less and Do More, Living on Purpose, I consider productivity to be getting whatever you want as quickly and easily as possible. Many of us think money is what we want, and having it will make us...
My prediction for the 2010s
The 2000s were about a shift from computing power to usability. The 2010s will be another shift, away from total connectedness.
Tips for Mastering E-mail Overload
Being at or near the the top of your organization, everyone wants a piece of you. So they send you e-mail. It makes you feel important. Don't you love it? Really? Then, please take some of mine! Over 100 real e-mails come in each day. At three minutes apiece, it will...
Defeating Overwhelm
My name is Stever Robbins, and I'm here to confess: I'm an overwhelm wimp. Give me more than three things to handle at once and pop, my head explodes. It's not just me—everyone seems to be suffering from daily overwhelm. At best, we flounder. At worst, we shut down...
The Path to Critical Thinking
Can you write a refresher on critical thinking? We business leaders so like to believe that we can think well, but we don't. Only one in seven even reaches the top 10 percent of quality thinkers.1 The rest of us haven't even read a book on critical thinking, much less...
One woman’s story divorcing her technology
Managing information overload, email overload, and divorcing technology worked well for one reader of Get-it-Done Guy’s 9 Steps to Work Less and Do More. This post contains her story.