My productivity the past few days has been better than it has been in a long time. As long as I keep the chart where I can see it when I work, I stay focused on what I’m doing. If I leave it somewhere else, I’m more likely to waste my time wandering around other cool websites. The Task Progress Tracker gets me motivated to get started on projects. Once I get started I begin to gain momentum and lose track of how long it has been. Sometime next week I’ll be releasing the current project I’m working on earlier than I had estimated and it’s all because I’ve added this new way of working to my daily routine.Dave made an great comment yesterday, he said, “It’ll be interesting to see if you even need the …
I can’t tell you how much I’m enjoying using the Task Progress Tracker. The system is great for people who have trouble getting started on those really tough projects. I’ve been much more productive lately and have had more time to read up on some of my favorite blogs. I’m going to try to start teaching myself AJAX tomorrow and the main project that I have been working on lately is going to be released even sooner than I had planned.I’m still looking fot more time management techniques to try out with with this one. If you know of any good ones that you might have heard about let me know!
As I mentioned yesterday I have decided to use David Seah’s Task Management Tracker to help manage my time better and hopefully get more stuff done. I really like it so far because it allows me to manage both my time and my projects on a single piece of paper.After only a day I find tha getting started on projects is much easier. I see the empty bubbles on the paper and instead of getting depressed because I still have a huge project to finish, I tell myself to work on it for 15 minutes just so I can fill in a bubble. Once the 15 minutes were finally up I got to mark the bubble, but then the bubble was lonely. I continued to work towards marking the next bubble. After an hour went by I had …
Too often I notice myself saying things like, “I don’t know yet” or “I haven’t done that yet.” Now I’m asking myself, “Why not?” I have so much I want to learn and even more that I have to do, why do I keep telling myself not yet? I have just as much time as everybody else and probably less to do. It can’t be that I don’t have the time, it has to be because I’m not using the time I have as best I can. For me to get everything I want to get done I’m going to have to stay focused and manage my time better.Time ManagementRecently I’ve been reading a lot about time management and I’ve decided to try out a technique I found on David Seah’s website. For the next week I’m going …
After hours of staring at my monitor and pounding on my keyboard I am proud to present you with Matt Bob Jones 2.0. When I decided to redo the site I had a few goals in mind that I wanted to accomplish. One of my goals was to add a second column that would allow for easier access to the blog and provide an area that I could use to share some of my favorite links with everyone (haven’t added them yet). One of my other goals was to use WordPress as much as possible so that managing the site is simple and less time-consuming. My last goal was to create a completely table-less site with valid XHTML and CSS. Why? Becaouse I can and because the benefits of using web …