Why Is It So Hard To Get Things Done?

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Life can be so frustrating. There is so much to do and so little time to do it. Everybody seems to want me to do something for them. The government wants me to file taxes, fill out forms, and spend lots of time with tedious details. My mailbox is full of ads that want me [...]

Overcoming The Resistance

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You sit down to work on your next project. It’s rather simple. All you need to do is open your word processor on your laptop and start writing. Yet something keeps you from proceeding. Something stops you from opening the lid. You look at the laptop. Nothing seems wrong. You reach out your hand, put [...]

STRONG Goals: Timing Is Everything!

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They are coming for you. Demanding your attention. Everywhere you look, they’re there. They might be red and flashing, or green and sublime… but they are insidious. They will take your most precious resource and consume it entirely. I’m talking about DISTRACTIONS. It might be your web browser, it might be Facebook. The phone may [...]

Optitasking Tools

As I have been working in a focused manner over the last few months at my desk at home, I’ve discovered some things that make the experience much more enjoyable. When you sit in one place for 48 minutes straight it’s nice to have music playing, a beverage, a comfortable chair, and good lighting. When [...]

Optitasking at Work

I’ve been under the influence of some huge projects at work this month. Projects that are tedious at best. I work with databases and all sorts of data on a daily basis. Sometimes data can be a 500 pound gorilla on your back. Currently I’m moving over 60 specialized user accounts from one server to [...]

The Amazing Power of Optitasking

Over the past two months I have experimented extensively with the idea of a focused work period. The concept is to take an hour time interval and divide it up into two periods. The longer period you work in a focused manner on one task and only one task. The other shorter period is for [...]