Category Archives: Use What Works in Theory

The Criminally-Minded Approach for Achieving Goals

You’re faced against the establishment and all the rules are against you. Those rules are there for a reason - to protect the haves and to keep out the have-nots, and you’re one of the have-nots.
To succeed in such situations, sometimes you have to break the rules. If you’re willing to do what it […]

10 Tips for Immediate Productivity Results

Are you drowning in work? Do you consistently end your day with things on your to-do list that you wanted to get done but never got to? Has your productivity in your day job been reduced to the point that you regularly work nights and weekends? Let me ask: if someone gives you yet […]

What’s the Best Way to Start the Day?

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Welcome every morning with a smile… Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again. Don’t waste it with a false start or no start at all. You were not born to fail.
- Og Mandino
Starting the […]

Work Smarter, Not Harder: Delegate

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Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment … seeming to do is not doing.
- Thomas Edison
Bill Gates, Oprah Winfrey, and the Dalai Lama. They are all from different worlds, but what do each of them have in common? Other than being […]

A Primer on Getting Things Done

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I’m a zealot, I admit it. As I looked back at my posts related to David Allen’s Getting Things Done (GTD), my writings were that of an “insider” and I was using insider jargon.
When it comes to GTD, the web seems to have two camps: those who follow it, and those who […]