As a supplement to the work we are doing this week on Capturing, I thought that I’d share my personal approach to Capturing, and why I consider myself a Green Belt. I will also describe some of the challenges that I have when I capture, and my plans for changing my own practices in this […]

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As
mentioned before, the task of comparing one worker to another in terms of their productivity has become much harder.
However, the results of examining their in-box can give a good insight into how productive they are. In other words, a person who has an in-box of thousands of items is less productive than one […]

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I am reading the #1 New York Times Best Seller -
The Four Hour Work Week and finding it quite entertaining.
As someone who lives in Jamaica, it would seem that I am living the author’s dream to some extent! More on this later, to be sure.
One immediate benefit this book has brought me is […]

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One of the big problems that professionals have in learning how to improve their productivity is to discipline themselves to follow the simple principle of putting items in existence by making them tangible and visible.
Making something “tangible and visible” is the same as writing it down in a place from where it can be reliably […]

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In
an earlier post, I talked about the fact that there are certain key components that need to be included in an effective time management system.
Component #1 is that of “Capturing”.
Definition
To understand Capturing, it’s best to slow down a single process that occurs hundreds of times in the day of an average profession.
The process […]

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