biggest time wasters

enough said.
here is a great list of things that get in the way of 'being productive'.

for me, again, being productive is carving out as much stuff in as short a period of time so i can get back to a 'balance' in my life.

not running around in my personal life with the same sort of crazed type of agenda that my work constitutes.

the article

formula for productivity

as i mentioned earlier - i find this idea of 'productivity' somewhat disturbing when applied to my personal life - i like to have my personal life remain something that is well, 'offline' in a certain way.

by that i mean, that the best use of my 'personal time' is when i owe no one or nothing any of my commitment. this means that i can do whatever is in my head at the minute, from walking along queen street west with my wife & looking at the shops and the items on sale or just trying to finish a movie that i've been watching in fifteen minute segments.

so, with some hesitation here is a link to the 'productivity formula' and remember - it's not how much time you have - it's what you have with your time.

procrastination formula!

i can't believe this! it's amazing.
someone put into a mathematical formula the reason why we don't finish what we start, or in my case - sometimes don't even start it.

The equation reads: Utility = E x V / (Gamma) x D

here's the article, & i'd like to point out that the originator is a canadian!

self organization

while i wait for a phone call today - i'd like to put you up on something that i find very cool.

pocketmod which is a very handy website for those of us who are becoming more and more obsessed with maximizing our time.

after my life change - i've become slowly more and more obsessed with saving more time. wondering things like - if i can do this on my pda while i'm on the way to such and so place - will that help? should i make notes to follow while standing in line at the grocery store?

for me it has much less to do with being productive - i hate that term - it's almost as if while i'm in my personal life i have to think about things like workflow, i mean it's my personal life.

so, if it's not about 'being productive' (as if this were still the industrial revolution you know?) then what is it?

it's about maximizing my personal time so that i can have things done and still have time to kick back, spend time with my wife and make sure that we're not spending all of our time doing the 'essentials' required for living life.

because one of those essentials is 'getting things done so you can relax.'