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Getting Stuff Done

A Different List: Stop Doing What Does Not Fit

12.04.2009 Getting Stuff Done

Over at 37signals’ blog, Signal v. Noise, a reader gave them a heads-up to Jim Collins’ concept of the anti-to-do list: The Stop Doing List.
Most of us lead busy but undisciplined lives. We have ever-expanding ‘to do’ lists, trying to build momentum by doing, doing, doing—and doing more. And it rarely works. Those who built [...]

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It’s not too late. Start doing more stuff.

12.03.2009 Civics' Lessons

Sweet Sassafras, this is good. Review Seth Godin’s “Is it too late to catch up?” It’s got bullet points and everything.
I’ve been out on the fringe of basecamp, but I’m going to check it out over the weekend and see how I can practically apply its stuff. I’ll let you know.
I muchly prefer Emma to [...]

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Re-Gifting a Way to Start Your Week

11.16.2009 From the Wizard's Tower

Hello in there.
I always try to find something on Monday mornings to get me started. How about you? Some small meditation to spark the slow fuse of the week’s inert start.
This week, my partner Roy Williams delivered it to my inbox shortly before I lumbered out of bed at 3:30 this morning.
On the surface, his [...]

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Nerd Alert: Aesthetic Geekery

11.11.2009 Getting Stuff Done

Mmmm. Have you ever visited the Blue Lounge? It’s chock-full of cable-hiding, hyphen-worthy goodness.
I discovered it this morning via Minimal Mac.
The unruly phalanx of computer cables, audio cables, and power cables just winced in horror.
Holiday shopping list forthcoming, ma.

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Friday Office Gadget Coolery

11.06.2009 Getting Stuff Done

Saw this on @ittybiz’s twitter feed last night - ridiculously cool office treats from over at jobmob. Seemed like a good thing to share on a Friday.
The clock that can be made from anything’s pretty slick. Only thing about the post was that the captions for each pic are above the pics, and it felt [...]

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The Beauty of Small

11.04.2009 Authenticity

Leo of the many blogs wrote this on mnmlist.com a couple days ago. It seems like an awfully good Morning Meditation for the week:

Less can come in many forms. You can have fewer things, you can do fewer things, you can use fewer things, you can focus on fewer things.
But less isn’t just fewer: [...]

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How do you get to …?

08.05.2009 Getting Stuff Done

Carnegie Hall? Practice, man. Practice.
Sorry - it’s an old joke included in Stephen’s King’s On Writing which I’m concurrently reading with Hugh McLeod’s Ignore Everybody and 39 Other Keys to Creativity.
They dovetailed together last night around 11pm when I read this excerpt from McLeod’s chapter titled, “Put The Hours In” (I add the emphasis):

Stamina is [...]

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Loud Noises.

07.30.2009 Getting Stuff Done

I’m working in my favorite little coffeeshop this morning. I’m wearing headphones. Yet, the music’s being drowned out by the complainer lady* a couple tables over.
No kidding. Everything sucks. The way the little league coach treats her kid sucks. The way the doctors in her office treat her sucks. The act has included not only [...]

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Why not you? 840,000,000 reasons to be next.

07.27.2009 Getting Stuff Done

Great little interview with Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh on the heels of his company’s acquisition by Amazon on Entrepreneur.com’s website.
Before you think things like this happen to company’s much larger than yours, consider:

We’ve grown from almost no sales in 1999 to over $1 billion in gross merchandise sales in 2008. The No. 1 driver of [...]

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(13.1 Miles of) Baby Steps

09.15.2008 Getting Stuff Done

A little over six months ago I was a pack-and-a-half per day mess. Overwhelmed. Disorganized. Frustrating both myself and others.
I just committed to finishing my first half-marathon. I may have to start it tomorrow, but I will finish it.
How do you get from one place to another so different?
You just start walking.
And you [...]

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