Back-on-track and How do you make your workday most effective ?
So - Im back in fulltime Toothless Tiger employment from june 1st. This is the right thing for me. This is the big dive into the open sea. I want to be more efficient evolving my workday - so my question is : what works for you ?
What I have found has worked for me:
- Skype and IM meetings late at night.
- drafting all my thoughts in the wordpress CMS on toothlesstiger.com
- using hiveminder and basecamp as a productivity tool
- getting energy by not reading emails more than at lunchtime and in the afternoon
- incubation on tech blogs instead of normal news sites - they don’t teach me anything anyway
where I really need to improve is:
-keeping myself on track - as I said, hiveminder is cool for productivity but I think I need something else as well
-keeping focused and not being distracted by not-work-noise
-doing boring business stuff (economy etc) as well as fun stuff
-setting both short term as well as long term goals
-family/worklife balance - sharing a calendar with the rest of the fam and other stuff.
-more filters of data instead of just data =)
What I think I need to make things easier:
-Hiveminder as a CRM tool
- some other podcastgear so I can rekickstart GeekArmyKnife together with the amazing Duarte
. (Huge thanks to these awesome guys for inspiring me to start up again)
Please overload me with comments - I need as much inspiration as I can get =) ( especially to make productivity/effectivity easier)
I sort of use GTD, to filter e-mail and keep track of my to-do’s using Things. If you set your mind to it, it works quite nicely.
Also, don’t set your feed reader to auto-refresh, don’t display the unread count in the dock, and only check it at the end of the day. Same with forums etc, get some work done first!
Mark Wubben - May 4th, 2008 at 10:47 amthanks mark - I think I am onto the same actually - I really need to stop checking my email all the time and my blogposts and everything that is basically a disruption of the work I need to get done…
I think I will make a nice schedule along the way to define what works for me - don’t worry it will probably show up here too
Henriette Weber Andersen - May 8th, 2008 at 10:03 pm