The one aspect of my ‘personal’ productivity system that is currently letting me down is also a biggy; tasks.  Tasks at work are handled by a paper-based system and I’m pretty happy with that.  Personal tasks however are currently in a number of places and I really need to get them all together if I ever hope to do another weekly review.

So with that in mind, I thought I’d take a good hard look at what I’m using to make sure it is the most efficient for me.

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I’ve had the same theme for the past two years, so I thought it was time for a change.

I had to change hosts and it became far more complicated than I first thought.  Normal service should have resumed now, and everything should be working.  If not, let me know.

Yesterday was Blog Action Day, a day put aside for participating blogs to post on one particular topic – The Environment.  The idea was one central theme, but handled according to each blogger’s individual style and theme. 

So far I’ve seen posts on recycling notepads, planting trees, turning off computers and influencing ‘green’ political parties.  And while I haven’t seen many tips or posts of a very novel nature, that is probably more to do with the feeds I watch, rather than the quality of the blogosphere’s offering to this project.  I did rather expect a bit more retoric on the nature of climate change, but again, perhaps it is just because I tend not to hang with that crowd.

Needless to say, the gremlins of time stole up on me and I missed it completely.  Bugger.

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 date booked in everyone’s calendars, such an extended date claimer means that it is near impossible to actually cancel should something better/more urgent/more important come along. 

Don’t get me wrong; I have no problem with date claimers that are set for a month or so in advance for events that the marketing stuff just isn’t ready for.  But for a party in December, I think that might be pushing the envelope just a bit.

/rant

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