While I don’t work from home, I find these interesting since there are times that I need to do some work at home.

One of the tips I found most interesting is “Remember your family has rhythms & schedules – AND HONOR THEM”.

He discovered that his work breaks would often upset the rhythm of his family’s day and that his being home during day affected his family.

There’s great advice there, go read the rest of his tips for working from home.

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Work from home and get things done

My favorites are:

Write down ideas and get back to them later. Amazing ideas aren’t always so amazing after a night’s sleep. If you act on every new idea without finishing the one you’re working on then you’ll never complete anything. Same holds true for programming. Get it working, then refactor.

and

Curb useless information addiction. Most news has no long term value. Mainstream media is bad for focusing on what’s popular versus what is useful, but niche media like blogs are just as bad for focusing on “what’s hot now” instead of “what’s useful tomorrow”.

Not sure if I can do the second one, but, it sounds important!

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14 Tips to Get More Done in Less Time

At home, I’ve been doing a decent job of plugging away at some of the big projects but not such a good job with some of the smaller projects.  I forgot my ATM PIN about a week ago and keep forgetting to call the bank to have them reset it.

I have tried using a variety of organizing schemes over the years with varying degrees of success.  I normally implement them enough to get out of the immediate crisis and then quit updating them and go back to the old “off the top of my head” time management system.

I bought Getting Things Done a little over a year ago during a big project crunch and was keeping track of everything on my Palm.  I worked reasonably well but I did not like using the Palm for keeping track of things so I ended up letting it slide.

I am thinking about starting up GTD again.  I have a laptop now, but think I am going to try implementing the system on paper and see how that goes.  One thing I know about time management, if I am not doing something to keep me on track I will quickly get overwhelmed.

The funny thing is I am too busy right now to spend the time I need to spend to review and set up GTD but I am going to work on the critical fires tomorrow and hopefully get most of that back under control and get some time to get organized.

How do you keep yourselves organized?  Do you use paper and pen or something electronic?  Do you consistently keep your system up to date?

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Getting Things Done