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By: Time management: How an MIT postdoc writes 3 books, a PhD defense, and 6+ peer-reviewed papers — and finishes by 5:30pm | I Will Teach You To Be Rich

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:31:47 +0000

[...] to use fixed-schedule productivity — similar to the Think, Want, Do Technique — to consciously choose what you want to work on and ignore worthless [...]

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Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:06:08 +0000

[...] more funding, more spending. Without a conscious spending plan, you’ll find that executing a Think, Want, Do analysis will reveal some huge disparities in where you think your money is going vs. where it’s [...]

By: Sirish

Sirish — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:47:11 +0000

this post is awwsome. very fundamental. I cant believe I am coming back to search and read this again and again. ! Good work.

By: greg

greg — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 04:41:14 +0000

Good thing this exists. You spent wayy too much time to give us nothing of real value. Thank you.

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Outcomes-What Do You Measure? | Uncle Joe's Leadership Blog — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 04:27:06 +0000

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Two Finance Links of Interest at Urban Monarch — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:15:47 +0000

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By: Alistiar

Alistiar — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:40:43 +0000

… so what is the small business equivalent of this, I’ve been tossing it around in my head, and it seems a good way to focus in on some specific metrics for the business, or to put some specific ideas into manager’s heads. The concept of Think, Want, Do, could be a good one for a manager of any small unit, whether of their department, or their own small company… but how to put it into that context…. if you don’t do the follow up article, I will have to! Cheers.

By: Rajavanya

Rajavanya — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:41:13 +0000

“See, I don’t understand people who do increasing amounts of work without measuring the results. I want to invent a time machine, go back in time, find a stegosaurus tail, come back, and beat these people in the face with it.”

I love your writing style !!!
Subscribed immediately !!

By: Mick G

Mick G — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 07:28:14 +0000

Here’s a tracking tool I found gave me some surprises –
http://www.mamooba.com/TrackTime

It’s in earlyish stages, so some bits are clunky, but it’s effortless. It just sits in the background gathering data about what I use on the computer and where I go.
some of the feedback has been salutary.

By: Kelly S

Kelly S — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 05:53:39 +0000

Mint is awesome. When I first signed up it was so/so, but they’ve added a lot of features recently that I’m very impressed with.

A great website for tracking calories, water intake, and exercise is sparkpeople.com. They have a ton of foods and exercises in their database and allow you to add stuff. …and there are pretty charts based on what you’ve entered.

As somewhat of an aside… I’d recommend the book “In Defense Of Food” by Michael Pollan (some ideas from the book: http://www.michaelpollan.com/article.php?id=77) especially if you are considering going on a diet.