I was answering a question: “how do I manage my time?” and I was thinking of it in terms of scheduling. Then it occurred to...Continue reading
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If you want to be more effective in your work and in your life, and you’d like to have more confidence that you’re meeting your intentions, this is where it begins.
Welcome to Do Busy Right, helping you organize your information and manage your attention so that they work for you, not against you.
We educate you and encourage you by discussing ways to be more effective, not more exhausted.
Let’s Do Busy Right.
WFH: Don’t Fall For The Hidden Challenge – DBR 081
WFH: Don’t Fall For the Hidden Challenge Most everybody I hear wants to work from home. I’ve posted previously that most employees see WFH as a...Continue reading
DBR 080: Information Overload Is Simpler Than You Think
Eradicating information overload. The goal of personal information management is to put processes and tools around our information so we can “manage” it – that...Continue reading
DBR 079: Work-life Balance Is Nothing (… but an Attention Management Problem)
This episode is about the outcomes you can achieve with the information and coaching I am able to give. This is important, because it's gonna...Continue reading
DBR 078: Watch Out For The Three ‘Micro’ Wastes of Productivity
I want to describe calm productivity. And I want to contrast the results of attention management to the results of efforts to do time management....Continue reading
DBR 077: Over-allocated Attention and the Associated Stress
Our attention is over-allocated by a nexus of events. This episode is what to do about that. I'm gonna acknowledge something that I'm not a...Continue reading
DBR 076: Yes! You CAN Be Happy At Work
The happiness at work episode. Yay. I’m happy to be at work. Last time we talked about pessimism versus optimism. A closely related subject is...Continue reading
DBR 075: Pessimism Cloaked as Realism Considered Harmful
This one's about optimism and pessimism, and what that has to do with productivity. I and the whole thing is a productivity concern for me....Continue reading
DBR 074: How We Got Here and Where We’re Going – History of Knowledge Work Productivity
I want to talk about the history of knowledge work productivity. And it's going to involve a lot of different names. It's going to involve...Continue reading
DBR 073: Fable: Productivity Rain Dances – Watch Out
I started out talking about the lies of productivity, but I’m going to change to fables because it's just things we collectively believe without much...Continue reading