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“Do Now” vs. “Due Now”: Work According to Plan, Not According to Deadlines

January 11, 2010

If you are always tackling your next deadline or latest e-mail, you will never find time to develop your business—or even just get ahead of your deadlines. If this sounds like you, the key is to start planning your schedule instead of letting your calendar dictate it.
In order to integrate work planning into your schedule, [...]

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TeuxDeux Rocks My Productive World

January 7, 2010

My most-productive weeks are the ones where I sit down on Sunday night or Monday morning and decide what I should be working on each day of the upcoming week. I like to set out two or three “most important tasks” (MITs) for each day. If I get those things done, I feel good, even [...]

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Voicemail Transcription

December 25, 2009

Voicemail is a waste of time. As Michael Arrington said (a while ago), “[v]oicemail is dead. Please tell everyone so they’ll stop using it.” I have no illusions that voicemail will truly die any time soon, so I have tried a number of ways to make voicemail more efficient in my office.
My main solution is [...]

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Staying Productive As a New Dad

December 15, 2009

I do not claim to be an expert at juggling a career and a kid, but in the (nearly) three months since my daughter was born, I have been learning fast. I do not get as much time at the office as I used to, and I need to be able to focus on my [...]

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Become a Systematic Marketing Machine

December 9, 2009

Making your marketing systematic will help to break your marketing goals into smaller bite-sized projects that are more realistically achieved. Once you have determined all of the pieces required to keep in contact with your clients, develop a calendared system to make your process easier.
When you consider your marketing effort to be a long-term investment, [...]

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Quickly Organize Ideas on the iPhone

December 2, 2009

Idea Organizer combines your iPhone’s ability to take notes, take pictures, and record audio notes into one simplified app.
The notepad app included with the iPhone is nothing special. The audio recorder is visually attractive, but also fairly limited. The distinct advantage to Idea Organizer is that it allows you to link text with audio, or [...]

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“Multitasking” is a Myth

November 9, 2009

A myth has arisen that multitasking is effective, and that those who are technologically savvy are particularly effective at it. But studies, including a 2009 Stanford University study—have shown that it is just that: a myth. In fact, frequent multitaskers were shown to have more difficulty filtering out useless information.

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Use Client Meetings to Increase Productivity

October 21, 2009

Meetings are getting a bad rap these days, but I find them very useful to help me complete a project, especially when it has no clear deadline. Those kinds of tasks can end up sitting on your work plan for weeks, since they are always lower priority than the things due right now. But you [...]

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Google Calendar Rocks

September 23, 2009

Google Calendar is very user-friendly, and very good at helping you manage your days. If you already use another calendar, consider switching over. If you do not already use a calendar—start using GCal immediately—it is that good.
5 Reasons Why GCal Rocks

You can invite people to events or allow them to view your entire calendar with [...]

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My Weekly Work Planning Template

August 3, 2009

After trying out numerous methods of tracking my cases and related tasks, I have finally found what seems to work best. I love Getting Things Done (GTD), but the system does not necessarily translate smoothly to a law practice. I have tried using Outlook, but my productivity suffered from not being able to look at [...]

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