Quadrant IV

Productivity, or lack thereof

Archive for August, 2007

Is ‘Date Claiming’ Acceptable or Just Plain Rude?

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

 
It is almost September and I’m already getting emails trying to claim a date for a Christmas Party.  ‘Date Claiming’ has become a very common occurrence in my inbox of late, and I must admit to finding the habit a little presumptuous.  While it seems like a smart idea on the surface to get the [...]

Life Changes and the pursuit of Simplicity

Monday, August 27th, 2007

DIY Planner has an amazing article today on simplicity.
A number of points in this article really struck a chord with me and have given me a new resolve to clean out some of the physical and emotional ‘junk’ in my life.  I want rid of the external CDRW drive hiding in my closet, the pack [...]

The Perils of Time Travel

Sunday, August 26th, 2007

The world is really big. But regardless of how big the world is, we can’t all live in the same place. There just isn’t room.
The world is so big, in fact, that it has up to 39 different time zones. Hey, my country alone has seven. In order to organise all these time zones, there [...]

Presentations with the power to please

Friday, August 24th, 2007

Just yesterday I completed a rather large powerpoint presentation.  It turned out to be quite a team effort and while I am pleased it is over, I will admit to not being that thrilled with the results.
If only we’d read Merlin’s post today about creating excellent presentations.  Solid advice there that I’ll definitely be using next [...]

Getting a better Outlook via gcal…

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007

Lifehacker has an amazing tip today; accessing Google’s Calendar via an Outlook Calendar page. 
I’ve just tried this and found that not only can I display my gcal in a new calendar in Outlook, I can use the same trick to enable my gmail in a similar way.  This is going to save screen real-estate and also [...]

Finally coming back up for air

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

A little while ago, I read a post on Jason DeFillippo’s blog detailing an ambitious lifechange he was undergoing. 
Around the time of his last post on his 90 day life change, I was also attempting to make some changes in my own life; get my GTD back into shape, start running and generally try and stay [...]

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