Reading Time: 6 minutesLast week, I did a quarterly review & planning session. To be able to focus on my review, I rented a room at a local desert resort and planned to spend two days working on only my review. I find it helpful to leave my normal surroundings to be able to give total focus to …
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA couple of months ago I wrote a blog post about Finding Balance in Life. In this post, I stated my belief that life balance did not mean giving equal time to all of the aspects or roles in my life. Rather, I said, “My definition of life balance is to give appropriate attention and …
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe Growing Popularity of Building a Second Brain “Building a Second Brain,” (BASB) is a Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) system developed by Tiago Forte. Recently it’s been receiving lots of attention in the productivity and business world. Forte recently published a book by that title and has appeared on numerous tech and business podcasts to …
Reading Time: 4 minutesRecently, David Sparks (Aka MacSparky) published a blog post and video describing his morning routine journal template. In it, he lists the questions he uses to prompt his journaling every morning. I’d seen the question, “How will my actions today show my character?” before in some of his materials. At that time I’d chosen not …
Reading Time: < 1 minuteTwo weeks ago I was honored to be interviewed by David Sparks, otherwise known as MacSparky. He’s a technology writer, podcaster, online-course teacher, YouTube host, father, and, until very recently, lawyer. I’ve followed his work for many years, and look to him as a teacher and mentor. I’ve always appreciated his creative skills and teaching, …
Reading Time: 3 minutesMultiple Files in Folders When I wanted to store different kinds of files together on one topic, in the past I would create a folder, then place the files into the folder. I’d do this with different file types such as text documents, website shortcuts, PDFs and deep links to MindNode mind maps. To view …
Reading Time: 3 minutesEvery Monday I write a new blog post for one of my two blogs. I publish a new post every Sunday, so I like to get an early start each week and get another post done. That’s in spite of the fact that I already have a reserve of several completed posts. If I get …
Reading Time: 5 minutesA new friend recently read some of my prior blog posts about using a roles-based productivity system and wrote, “I like the idea of looking at each life role separately. I’m someone who has measured myself mostly by my career/projects alone for a lot of my life but I’m giving more space and attention to …
Reading Time: 4 minutesI stumbled across a YouTube video this morning that I wish I’d seen before I retired. When I retired, I had a vague idea of how life might change, and I tried to do some planning, but I was really totally unprepared for the reality. When I watched this video, I immediately identified with it. …
Reading Time: 4 minutesListening to the Mac Power Users podcast #650: Craft Deep Dive earlier this week got my attention focused on the Craft app. I’ve had it installed on my Mac for over a year now, but haven’t done much with it. I figured out how to easily create a few documents and emails containing links to …