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Small tasks can easily steal our focus, keeping us from finishing masterpieces.

Now here’s something a little different than what you might normally hear concerning productivity and task lists. The David constantly states that during the GTD sweep, it’s imperative that we throw away our crusty old tasks, projects, and even contexts once they’re spent. The guys at Behance have a different idea. Instead of tossing away ...

As I’ve been trying to stick with my convictions on only allowing the absolute-smallest amounts of time to finish tasks, I’ve learned that the more you make of the time before each task, the more efficient you’ll be. Instead of finishing a task, taking your well deserved break, and coming back to a completely new ...

Jeremy Miner’s got a great method for feeling the satisfaction of completing a task. Instead of throwing the used notecards away, he stabs them. After I complete the tasks on a given card, I gleefully impale the card on the spindle. There’s a profoundly visceral satisfaction that comes with stabbing a completed task through the ...

I have to confess something. If I could romantically become involved with a web app, Basecamp (aff) would be getting some flowers and chocolates from yours truly. I know, I know… I’ve been yapping a lot about the project management software lately, but the more I play with it the more I can see benefits ...