When I was heading towards graduation and began looking for job interviews, I got a great book called Zen and the Art of Making a Living by Laurence Boldt. It was an intimidatingly huge book (over 600 pages!), but it was chock full of good advice and was one of the best books I […]

If you are a sports fan, this is a very active time of the year. The World Series… are the Red Sox the next dynasty? Football… who’s better, the Patriots or Colts? Basketball - which team will Kobe play for this season? Hockey season also is starting. Information overload!
So what […]

This week’s post was supposed to be a description of how I completed my iterative initiation to GTD by putting my home stuff through the GTD workflow. However, I spent much of last week recovering from surgery on my ruptured appendix and the completion of my iterative initiation was put on hold.
I was so […]

If you get pain in your lower-right quadrant, don’t assume it’s stomach flu and think it will go away on its own like I did. It could very well be appendicitis, and they typically get worse, not better, if left untreated.
After an ER visit on Monday night and an emergency appendectomy, I just got […]

After reading Getting Things Done, there were two main points that made an impression on me. The first point was that GTD’s main objective is to relieve stress. Sure, project planning and making long-term goals were addressed, but the main point was to remove the reliance on memory and to delegate to the […]