I'm currently sitting at my desk looking at the physical inbox there. On my computer is the digital inbox for things like PDFs, scans, and other detritus of the day. My email is the only inbox that isn't overflowing, but that's because I'm obsessive about it.

I'm feeling behind already …

Some days I feel like I have the wind at my back and I'm just gaining momentum. I can't help but get things accomplished left and right. Other days I feel like I can't get much of anything done. I just sit at the computer an hope that something comes …

I've been reviewing my Someday / Maybe list, which is a list of projects that I might get to someday, maybe. This is part of the Getting Things Done (R) methodology where you set up a list that you can park items that are not immediately going to get done. Unfortunately …

One of the tenets of the Getting Things Done system is the idea of "write it down" as soon as you have the idea. Then, once the idea has been written down you can drop it into your inbox or deal with it later instead of keeping it in your …

I've found myself stuck on a lot of my writing and programming projects. For weeks (months?) I've been putting off working on them for one reason or other. Today I feel I stumbled on what might be causing it.

Whenever I work on a project I have a tendency to …