Comments on: The First Big Productivity Hurdle

By: Pen n Paper 777

Pen n Paper 777 — Sun, 10 May 2009 23:58:12 +0000

Yup, you definitely need to know yourself and what you are going to do. It does no good to learn about things to help you “get stuff done” if you aren’t going to use it.

By: Paula Eder

Paula Eder — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:49:07 +0000

This is excellent advice! The multitude of productivity tools available (and therefore choices) can lead to paralysis. Bringing it all back to the fundamentals (“Know Thyself”) provides solid ground for implementing a truly personalized, productive system.

And another point I’d add – after choosing, there is always the option to modify that choice. Things will evolve …

By: Paul Gardner

Paul Gardner — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 07:08:34 +0000

You are so right!

I especially agree that it’s important you know about yourself. I had to work that out to make GTD work for me.

I tried quite a few tools in my attempts to implement GTD but everything always got too complicated. One program wouldn’t talk to another and copying and pasting emails seemed to double up on work. As you can imagine, things got pretty ugly.

Then I came across eProductivity for Lotus Notes and found an integrated solution that kept things just how I needed it – simple.