How to handle a string of skip days in the Do [x] Daily program is a common concern. Yesterday is over. You just have to forget about the past and move on with today. Don’t beat yourself up over any skips, and just be sure you still intend to do your thing daily. Running – [...]

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One of the keys to the GTD process is getting to zero. David Allen talks about a state where you have captured all the “stuff” in your life and placed reminders in a trusted system so that it is out of your head. By doing this you can achieve a state he calls a “Mind [...]

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Are you reading enough?  I think everyone has some backlog of reading that they would like to knock out, but somehow the reading stack keeps growing with books, magazines, papers until it falls over into a big pile.  How can you keep up.  Read Daily. You just need to set aside a small block of [...]

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Julia Cameron, author of several creativity books including the Artist’s Way, encourages the use of what she calls “Daily Pages”. These daily pages are a tool to keep the creative juices flowing, avoiding the inner critic and developing a habit of writing every day. I would say that committing to daily blog posts could accomplish [...]

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So, if you’ve been doing your [x] every day, you’ll want to keep track of your progress. Logging your daily actions will help you stay motivated to keep acting daily. Especially with fitness related actions, like running, a log will help you see where you may need to make changes and if you’ve set certain [...]

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Project managers sometimes wonder about how often they need to check status on their projects. Unfortunately, what ends up driving the status updates is the schedule of status reports. If your communication plan calls for bi-weekly status reports you end up waiting until just before the status report is due to check in with your [...]

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David Allen, the author of one of my favorite productivity books Getting Things Done, calls the Weekly Review a key to his entire system of organization and life management. I’ll talk about the whole GTD process in several future posts, but for now, I’d like to emphasize my Daily Action approach to GTD.  To put [...]

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In the spirit of Do [x] A Day, I’ve committed to posting to this blog at least daily.  We’ll use the same rules as I outlined in the Run Every Day Post below.  If I need a skip day for whatever reason, I won’t beat myself up over it, but will just post the next day.  I’ll [...]

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I’ve been running for several years, but have always had trouble making it a habit I could stick with.  I would typically plan to start running every other day, keeping the odd day for rest.  That would work until something came up on a running day to make me miss my run.  It would usually [...]

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