Comments on: Where Did My Day Go Contest

By: Matthew Cornell

Matthew Cornell — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:05:00 +0000

Thanks for reviewing your setup. Though the contest is over, you can still buy a copy.

By: Anton Demekhin

Anton Demekhin — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:09:46 +0000

iPhone (“friend”) is my lifesaver. It remembers everything to do with general planning for me. If there’s something to remember for a particular date I put it in my Cal and forget about it until reminder comes up. All my Contacts are memorized by “friend”.

All this syncs to my laptop to help me further get organized in Outlook.

Mobile email and internet access rock! Also I use a todo list that gets updated every day when I select tasks for today. They get priority #1, other tasks for near future #2 and everything else in #3. I use application called Done. And there is so much more I have learned to do to be more organized…..the only problem is sometimes being lazy)))

I am an optimization maniac – I need to be in the contest!

By: Where Did My Day Go Contest Winner : Productivity501

Where Did My Day Go Contest Winner : Productivity501 — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:01:40 +0000

[...] have a winner in our most recent contest. Chad Harless won a copy of Where the !@#% did my day go? by Matthew Cornell. I’d encourage [...]

By: Matthew Cornell

Matthew Cornell — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:39:26 +0000

Thanks so much everyone for your interest and your stories. Those are great examples of why I want to share my ideas. I invite you to go ahead buy a copy, and to contact me if you need more detailed help.

By: Mark Shead

Mark Shead — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:07:22 +0000

I just wanted to let everyone know that Chad won the contest. I’ll do a post announcing it next week. Thank you to everyone who participated.

By: Mark Shead

Mark Shead — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:06:23 +0000

I would highly recommend that you go to a good financial/debt counselor. The longer you wait the harder it will be to get out of the hole you are digging.

By: Matthew Cornell

Matthew Cornell — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:20:22 +0000

Katie: That sounds serious. How about getting some specific financial advice, such as around consolodating debt? In our case, my wife and I cancelled all our accounts, and now have one debit card. It helped us, though our situation wasn’t as dire as yours, I think.

Tammy: Don’t worry, you still have the opportunity, even if you don’t win :-)

By: Fred Stanek

Fred Stanek — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:59:27 +0000

Enter me into contest

By: Tammy

Tammy — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:38:55 +0000

I meant to leave my comment yesterday but I have no idea where the !@#% my day went! I can’t wait to get my new daily planning guide *fingers crossed*. Thank you Mark and Matt for this wonderful opportunity. Oops…I mean contest. ;)

By: Katie

Katie — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:00:56 +0000

I hate keeping receipts and it has been the main cause of my demise. I was never good at planning how to pay my credit cards and now I am collapsing under the weight. One was alright because I was learning. I have about eight now. I don’t know when to say no because I can just say plastic. I don’t know how to keep a budget and I cringe every time my mint.com account emails or texts me. I know something is going to be late and I know I would rather have the extra meal than being debt free.

It’s a downward spiral and I’ve been drowning for quite some time.

By: Matthew Cornell

Matthew Cornell — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:17:30 +0000

Mary: Mark’s point is excellent. Of course sometimes it takes time to figure out who works best in what modality.

Lynn: I’m an ex-Twitterer too. ROI, while it sounds businessy (substitute “80-20 rule” if you’d like) is crucial. But as I told a CIO.com editor last week, it’s also hard to measture with tools like Twitter. Downstream results can be disconnected from upstream (realtime) actions.

Karen: I reccomend 1/2 of what you do ;-) I encourage clients to treat improved productivity as an experiment (this is part of my Think, Try, Learn philosophy). Things are different from a year ago (or 6 months ago): You are different, your job is different, and the world is different, so how you manage yourself should be re-evaluated. Simplification might be appropriate, for example. Re being a junkie – I suspect you know the risks. In my workshops I talk about the “tool trap.”

Bert: I like your tip – a simple kind of time tracking in the most commonly-used tool (next to email – which might be done in the browser too). I like that you used “confronting”. At first I thought you meant “comforting,” but might not be likely ;-)

By: Bert

Bert — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:01:36 +0000

word=work, sorry, typo

By: Bert

Bert — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:00:35 +0000

This is a tip that can be somewhat confronting:

At the end of the day, hit Control-H(istory) in your browser to see what you have been visiting that day.

That’s were -part of- your day went!

It helped me to decide to quit some of my browsing at word because I would not be able to explain these visits to my collegues.

Bert

By: Karen

Karen — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:55:49 +0000

I am a productivity “junkie” and have read many books, articles and haunted several blogs, still looking for the perfect system that works for me. This could be it. Please enter me in the contest.

By: Lynn O'Connor

Lynn O'Connor — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:55:04 +0000

Matt:

Ditto. I got off twitter (meaning I stopped looking at it, at all) about two months ago also. I think the sudden popularity and “fame” of the service brought out so much commercialism –it ceased being interesting enough to justify the time drain. I sometimes miss leads, but it just was not worth it.

I think our time allocation is in for another, far more significant, transformation. What it will look like? Who knows.