One of the sites I watch regularly is lifehacker.com, which is where a number of the small anecdotal posts on this site come from. They recently posted a link to an article from Elizabeth Grace Saunders at the Harvard Business Review that explains a formula for balancing your time and ensuring you don’t over-commit: (External Expectations) + (Internal Expectations)…
Taxes are never fun. In past years, especially since getting married, they’ve grown more and more complex. The fact that both of us own businesses only complicate things further. I use TurboTax to do our income taxes each year; it certainly makes the ordeal seem easier than what I remember of my father with papers…
If your company is guilty of any of these, think about how to turn them around. Pre-Launch Phase 1. No market research on the product or the market has been done. 2. Most of the budget was used to create the product; little is left for launching, marketing, and selling it. 3. The product is…
I’ve started following a few of the astronauts in the International Space Station on Twitter, mostly because I love the photos they share of the Earth. Here’s one of Florida and the Bahamas. #Florida and the #Bahamas from a new perspective pic.twitter.com/tVyitz0vQR — Terry W. Virts (@AstroTerry) December 21, 2014
Holidays are about family for me. They’re a time to slow down, take a break, relax and enjoy time with your loved ones. I was fortunate to have married into a family that extends my “loved ones” considerably, and my life is better for it. More than anything, I’m blessed with a beautiful son who…
Overview I recently evaluated Appigo’s Todo Cloud 7, formerly known as Todo Pro. It does just-short job of supporting the GTD process. For example, it doesn’t have project status (e.g., Next Action, Someday/Maybe, Waiting) or projects, though you could, in theory, use tags for the statuses. They use lists rather than projects, which aren’t significantly different in…
Overview It didn’t take long for me to figure out that Producteev wasn’t going to do the trick. It doesn’t support the GTD process sufficiently. For example, it doesn’t have project status (e.g., Next Action, Someday/Maybe, Waiting) or contexts, though you could, in theory, use labels for both of these. There’s also no Inbox. The…
Jen and I managed to get away to Myrtle Beach for a week of well-needed vacation time. I have been working a ton of hours lately and Jen has certainly developed an understandable level of cabin fever since the arrival of the baby. Her best friend, Megan, and her husband, Graham, graciously hosted us at…
We regularly read about companies experiencing security breaches, and yet we continue to give an insane amount of data (and level of detail within that data) to companies without giving much thought to how they’re using it, how they’ll protect it, or whether we should perhaps limit their ability to store it. Sometimes, as I’ve…
I recently migrated from a PC desktop at work to a MacBook Air. I’m used to working on a MacBook in my personal life after buying one close to two years ago. What I’m not used to is the Thunderbolt display I acquired at work. And I’m in love! I’ve been playing with the idea of transitioning…