Self-Aggrandizement: Productive

As a handful of people wrote in to protest my prior post, just wanted to clarify that I'm not done with posting about productivity, just done with doing so when Jess is making fun of me in the background.

Fortunately for you, I'm in the office today, so I can point readers towards Mark Forster's beta test of his new "Autofocus Time Management System".

Mark's books, Do It Tomorrow and Get Everything Done are in my productivity 'top three' (along with David Allen's Getting Things Done).

Forster, unlike Allen, acknowledges that in real life, most of us fall prone to procrastination, and that a lot of the challenge of work isn't just making a list of what you need to accomplish but actually doing things on that list. And, also unlike Allen, Forster is willing to keep changing and improving his system over time, based on what works for him and for his clients in the real world.

His new Autofocus approach seems almost stupidly simplistic, but it's producing great results thus far - for me, and for the thousand or so people in the beta test. But don't take my word for it; head to his site, sign up, and try it yourself.

Productive Filed Tuesday, January 6 2009.

Productive
Filed Tuesday, January 6 2009.