48 Hour Days

Everyone wants one, and I think I found a way to do it.
The clock goes around four times, rather than two. There are two sleeps and six meals. Yes, sometimes you go to work twice.
It actually works pretty well.
Under the old, 24-hour day, I had these long lists of things I wanted to do every [...]

Unbalanced Ideas

I’ve been participating in a discussion, started by David Seah’s attempts to come up with a form to help balance his life. Lots of suggestions about what parts might need balancing, and how to plan and record it.
At first, I was all gung-ho, and thought about what parts in my life aren’t balanced. Most of [...]

Task Charts for Recurring Tasks

In a discussion over at David Seah, I described my current way of keeping myself organized and motivated, and possibly even balanced (which was the original goal of his form).
As requested by another commenter, here are the two forms I use right now. Most of the stuff I do each day repeats either daily, weekly [...]

Another No Sleep

Got to sleep fine, but woke at 2:30, took Gravol at 3:30, hugged daughter at 4:30 (she had a nightmare, and when falling asleep again felt a fish slap her face), and was dreaming soundly at 7 when the alarm went off. Woozy this morning — kids walked themselves to school.
So, another day of doing [...]

Winding down the Palm

I admit it, I tried to get the 2001 Palm to work on Vista (after hotsynching it to the XP as a backup). The desktop seemed to go over well, and it hotsynched and took the data from the Palm. Then I tried to find where the data was stored so I could copy my [...]

The Everything Book

I just finished telling someone else about my “anything” book, so I thought I’d put a description here as well.
The idea came from my father: If you use the same book for everything, you’ll always have the right book with you.
It was modified slightly by Hyram Smith’s course, which included Covey’s 7 Habits, back in [...]

Repetitive Tasks — How to Plan and Record

Every now and then, when I’m procrastinating, I search for GTD (short for David Allen’s Getting Things Done). Yes, I’ve read the book, and I use many of his suggestions.
David is quite clear about which tools you should use: Whatever works for you, but don’t spend all your time playing with the them. Get things [...]

Filing Solution

I admit it, I hate to throw things out, even things I know I’ll rarely use. (I’m not as bad as my kids, unless it’s paper. Paper doesn’t take a lot of space.)
Some things it’s obvious. Coupons for things I’ll never use, flyers.
The only problem is the things that I know I’ll never use, but [...]