Today, It's all about me!

Daniel at www.hackyourday.com was kind enough to feature an interview with me in his first edition of Hack Your Day Magazine.  Give HackYourDay.com a look, I'd highly recommend it.

If interested in a subscription to Hack Your Day Magazine, see the Hack Your Day subscription page.

Free E-books!

 

I recently stumbled across a very cool site that offers free E-books.  The site is call WOWIO.  What is WOWIO?

WOWIO is a new kind of online bookstore that enables readers to download ebooks for free, using commercial sponsorships to compensate authors and publishers. Readers get free ebooks. Sponsors get a powerful new channel to communicate their message to precisely the people they want to reach. Publishers get a new means of distributing their books, expanding their readership, and monetizing their intellectual property.

I've only been using WOWIO for a few days now, but I'm impressed.  Quality E-Books (actual, real books!) for free.  Each E-Book has an advertisement included in the first few pages.  Other than that, the book are advertisement free.

There are a few limitations.

1. You have to register with a non-anonymous e-mail address.  That means, gmail, hotmail, or yahoo e-mail addresses can not be used to register.  The alternative is to use a non-anonymous e-mail address, a credit card (for verification purposes only), or a scanned picture of an ID card.
2. You can only download 3 E-books each day.
3. Currently, the E-Books are only available in Adobe PDF format.

If you can deal with those 3 limitations, I guarantee you will not be disappointed.  This is a great service.

 

GTD Digest 2008-03-02

Weekly recap of GTD highlights (news, views, tips and tricks) from around the web

Feature Interview with GTD Author David Allen on Health and Stress
By Bob Walsh
For me, the single biggest stress reduction tool I’ve found this decade has been David Allen’s Getting Things Done: A Guide to Stress Free Productivity book and what’s become something of a movement among web workers: Getting Things ...

Declutter your workspace, and work on one thing at a time
By admin
The decluttering your work space part of it is simply to remove all extra distractions, on your desk and on your computer. If you’ve got a clean, simplified workspace, you can better focus on the task at hand. Here’s how to do it: ...

Productivity is Dead! Long Live Living!
By Nick Cernis
And for those Productivians who’ve turned their back on conventional religion, best-selling books like Getting Things Done and great websites such as Zen Habits, 43 Folders and Lifehacker are now the only rulebook for living they have. ...

Re-Negotiation and the *Ding* - Merlin Mann Productivity Talk ...
By avoision
... in the office well after regular business hours: in all earnestness - have a listen. I'm all but insisting on this. Links: Living with Data (mp3) Video: Merlin's New Time and Attention Talk (43 Folders) Getting Things Done and iGTD.

David Allen: The Process Is Personal
By David Allen(webmaster@huffingtonpost.com)
The David Allen Company is a professional training, coaching, and management consulting organization, based in Ojai, California. Its purpose is to enhance performance and improve the quality of life by providing the world's best ...

GTD For Moms and Other Homies: Getting Started
By Lela Davidson(Lela Davidson)
I read stuff at sites like The David Allen Company and 43 Folders. It was not long before I was at Barnes and Noble buying the book, Getting Things Done, by David Allen. This guy's got tricks on.

The 7 Habits and GTD
By Stephen
Today’s post will focus on how to implement the first two habits into your GTD practice. The first two habits are most powerful at the “runway” level of thinking and activity. This is where the action really takes place, where things ...

Simply GTD with Kelly: Handling meeting notes
By kelly@davidco.com (Kelly)
Someone recently asked David Allen for his best tips, tricks and processes for handling meeting and conversation notes. Since this is a common question we tend to get, I thought I would share David's reply: ...

Getting things done with Jott
By bobhyatt
I love both Jott and Pinger- Pinger I use mainly to send short voice messages to people. Why not just call? Well, when I'm in the car and have ten calls to make, it's incredibly helpful to just be able...

Michael Dolan: Getting the Gunk Out
By michael.dolan@davidco.com (mdolan)
About half of the clients I work with fall into the category of people who have implemented the practices of GTD on their own, using Getting Things Done, by David Allen as their guide, but have realized that its not yet quite working as ...

GTD Mastery 100: Step 21
By Chris Y.
To read my complete journey to GTD Mastery see the main post. Step 21 to GTD Mastery is: I have a mobile office space set up, if needed. As a student, it is definitely needed. Utilizing the time inbetween classes, events, ...

Why laziness can be good
The Province - Vancouver,BC,Canada
"Now, for many of us, there are no edges to most of our projects," he writes in his book Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity. ...

How to create a distribution list in Gmail

 

What you know as a distribution list in just about any other e-mail application is called a "Group" in Gmail.  To create a group of e-mail recipients;

• First, click the Contacts Link on the right side of the screen.
• Next, click the Add New Group button.
  
• You will be prompted to give the new group a name.  Enter the name and click OK
• Lastly, to add e-mail addresses to your new Group, place your cursor in the box that says "Add to this group",
  
  and start typing the e-mail address of one of your contacts.  As you do this, Gmail will bring up a list of contacts to add.  Click the contact name to add them to the Group.
   

It works, but it is quite a chore.  I hope that someday Google creates a friendlier way to create Groups or Distribution Lists in Gmail.

GTD Digest 2007-02-24

Weekly recap of GTD highlights (news, views, tips and tricks) from around the web

How to stop procrastinating
By meta
But now you add the second trick David Allen hasn’t included in GTD yet: you give each next action an immediate payoff. It’s something I do all the time. If I go to the dentist for a checkup, I get myself a doughnut. ...

David Allen: Feeling Good About What You're Not Doing
By David Allen
The David Allen Company is a professional training, coaching, and management consulting organization, based in Ojai, California. Its purpose is to enhance performance and improve the quality of life by providing the world's best ...

A Primer on Getting Things Done
By Al at 7P
When it comes to GTD, the web seems to have two camps: those who follow it, and those who are sick of people talking about it. This article is for the ones who are in between… the ones that heard about it and are curious to know more ...

Get Things Done (GTD) With Shoeboxed
By Dan
David Allen is a widely popular author who preaches the concept of GTD, or Getting Things Done. He is a thought leader in the area of personal productivity, and I’ve been meaning to mention him and his suggestions on the blog for awhile ...

43 Folders: Best of GTD
By Merlin Mann
Since this may be the first time some folks have visited the site, I wanted to highlight a few of my favorite GTD posts from the past four years. We talk about lots more than GTD here, but it’s definitely a lot of my readers’ favorite ...

How a “Sniggly Day” Can Help You Get Things Done
By Christine Kane
A Sniggly Day is to Getting Things Done what the Junk Drawer is to Personal Organization. It’sa designated catch-all day for batching all the random stuff you have to do - and then doing that stuff in a way that feels fun and good to ...

GTD Mastery 100: Step 20
By Chris Y.
To read my complete journey to GTD Mastery see the main post. Step 20 to GTD Mastery is: I have all the office supplies I need (p. 92). Page 92 in Getting Things Done refers to a list of tools for your work space. ...

NPR Tackles GTD
Lifehacker Australia - Sydney,NSW,Australia
National Public Radio's All Things Considered takes a look at David Allen's Getting Things Done philosophy, offering an overview of what makes GTD so ...

Getting Things Done By Others
By Joseph Michelli
If leadership is the ability to “get things done by others,” why don’t more leaders give greater autonomy to staff. Dr. Michelli discusses common barriers that prevent the creation of an empowerment culture. Download Standard Podcasts.

Why isn’t the Getting Things Done audiobook available in the UK?
By Rachel Murphy
Finally, in an old post on David Allen’s blog I found a suggestion to try abebooks.co.uk. Bingo! I got the Getting Things Done abridged CD for £9.86. (Although looking today I see the cheapest is £19.93. There’s obviously a lot of ...

Getting Things Done: Why it’s life-changing
By Sarah
... but other than that, onward! Tomorrow we’ll be back to our daily challenges and other fun stuff. Of course, I’ll continue offering ideas about how to implement Getting Things Done into your life. If you’ve just been dipping your [...]

It's Not About Time
Success Magazine - New York,NY,USA
David Allen is an international lecturer and founder of the David Allen Company, a management consulting, coaching and training company. ...

[The Gateway III - extended version] Tricky Business
By davidlanger
In 2002, David Allen published a book entitled Getting Things Done (GTD) which has since sold over 500000 copies and been published in 23 languages. Attracting a huge following in the blogosphere, many would name the book as the ...

 

Tired of "Getting Started" with Microsoft Word?

Are you tired of seeing the "Getting Started" Window Pane in Microsoft Word each and every time you start Word?  You can turn it off.  From the Tools menu, Select Options, then uncheck Startup Task Pane.

Circuit City offers education to prepare you for the upcoming Digital TV Conversion

Circuit City is planning a year-long education campaign to inform consumers about the analog to digital television broadcast transition scheduled for February 17, 2009.

• On Tuesday, February 19, 2008, Circuit City will present a free online interactive Webcast about the digital conversion.
• Circuit City will enhance their in-store signage and provide educational materials to shoppers.
• The retailer will begin stocking government coupon-eligible DTV converter boxes priced at USD59.99 on February 17, 2008.

For more information see Circuit City's website section titled Understanding the analog-to-digital TV transition.  To receive your US government sponsored $40 digital converter box coupon, see the National Telecommunications and Information Administration website.