Comments on: Tips from the Trenches: Getting Things Done http://gigaom.com/2009/09/21/tips-from-the-trenches-getting-things-done/ Sun, 19 May 2013 03:33:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Productivity, Motivation, and Personal Development Links – 4th October 2009 - DIGTD - Making You More Productive http://gigaom.com/2009/09/21/tips-from-the-trenches-getting-things-done/#comment-87502 Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:02:45 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=19479#comment-87502 [...] third link is a post from Web Worker Daily that provides some Productivity Tips from the Trenches. These are tips from some successful Internet workers and they each share some tips on how they get [...]

]]> By: DJ Waldow http://gigaom.com/2009/09/21/tips-from-the-trenches-getting-things-done/#comment-87501 Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:49:34 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=19479#comment-87501 Meryl:

Thanks so much for including me on this list. As always, I learned from the others here!

My 2 favorites:

“Celebrate task completions before moving to the next task.” (@shel)

“I get up a half hour earlier than I have to. Every single day. AMAZING what you can do in that first half hour.” (@skydiver)

DJ Waldow
Director of Community, Blue Sky Factory
@djwaldow

]]> By: Meryl K Evans http://gigaom.com/2009/09/21/tips-from-the-trenches-getting-things-done/#comment-87500 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:32:33 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=19479#comment-87500 Roy, that’s a tip I haven’t heard (no pun intended). I’m sure others will appreciate the insight and give it a go.

]]> By: Meryl K Evans http://gigaom.com/2009/09/21/tips-from-the-trenches-getting-things-done/#comment-87499 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:31:37 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=19479#comment-87499 Greg, that’s true for many of us. Not all of us admit that, so I admire you for confronting those excuses. Hope others will learn from your great tip.

]]> By: Meryl K Evans http://gigaom.com/2009/09/21/tips-from-the-trenches-getting-things-done/#comment-87498 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:30:34 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=19479#comment-87498 You’re welcome to print it and put it in a cheap frame ;) Glad you like it.

]]> By: Roy Murphy http://gigaom.com/2009/09/21/tips-from-the-trenches-getting-things-done/#comment-87497 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:13:56 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=19479#comment-87497 Selective “hearing” works a treat for me. In a busy commercial digital agency (where I mostly can be found) time and attention are constantly at a premium, there are always multiple things you could do, most of them not moving you, your company or your clients an inch forward. Cut those unimportant suckers down to size, try and ignore as much as you can – go with gut instinct. I think most people, when they really think about it, know what needs to be done and what doesn’t.

]]> By: Greg Pincus http://gigaom.com/2009/09/21/tips-from-the-trenches-getting-things-done/#comment-87496 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:51:30 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=19479#comment-87496 I’m a big believer in knowing your own excuses… and then not accepting them. I found that I had a lot of self-inflicted ways of preventing myself from getting things done – all of them sounded valid, of course, but they were just excuses that did nothing but delay or prevent me from checking things off the list. Once I recognized them… well, excuses no longer work.

]]> By: Greg Pincus http://gigaom.com/2009/09/21/tips-from-the-trenches-getting-things-done/#comment-87495 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:45:30 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=19479#comment-87495 I’m a big believer in knowing your own excuses… and then not accepting them. I found that I had a lot of self-inflicted ways of preventing myself from getting things done – all of them sounded valid, of course, but they were just excuses that did nothing but delay or prevent me from true forward progress. Once I recognized them… well, excuses no longer work.

]]> By: Sharon Elin http://gigaom.com/2009/09/21/tips-from-the-trenches-getting-things-done/#comment-87494 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:29:56 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=19479#comment-87494 I’d like to see this as a poster to frame in my office.

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