Ben Yoskovitz over at The Instigator Blog recently started a group writing meme on the subject of personal productivity. He tagged people to write about what most helps them to be optimally productive, and those people tagged a few people, and so on. The hope is that at the end of it all, he will gather up everyone's personal productivity tips and produce an Ultimate Guide to Productivity. Here are some of the valuable tidbits that have been produced so far:
MomGadget's Gayla McCord uses Excel spreadsheets to do everything from organizing a blogging schedule, to keeping track of affiliates and income, to tracking expenses.
Monk at Work's Adam Cayce points to clarity as his number one productivity tip. Find what you love, focus on that, and you will naturally be more productive. You'll intuitively know where to put your energies.
Wendy Piersall at eMoms at Home says her most valuable tip, when it comes to being more productive, is leverage. This is basically a punishment/reward system, with the point being to get the work done, lest ye be punished. She mentions having to grow a moustache. But I don't think you have to take it that far.
---- I copied all of that straight from the chickie that tagged me.
Let me think... I don't think there are any secrets to being productive.
I stop and think about what really needs to be done and then I prioritize and do it. Remaining flexible helps, too.
I was tagged by Dari Donovan to participate. This is a subject near and dear to my heart for a couple of reasons. One reason being that I have young children of my own. The second being that all children deserve to be protected online and off.
A Request to ALL Webmasters of Adult Sites:
Truth be told, I don't respect your business...however in this country we do have a little thing called freedom of speech. With that said: Stop offering things via email. Any smart kid can figure out what date of birth would make him or her 18. Kids are corrupted easily enough as it is...they don't need any help. Don't offer "teen pics". While I understand that these "teens" probably are not actually teens, you are just fueling the fire for perverts to go out and attack some little kid.
Advice to Parents:
1. Put your computer in a central location. You should be able to see over your kid's shoulder at any given time.
2. If your kid changes the screen the minute you walk into the room, change it back. If you don't know how, hire yourself a computer savvy young adult to teach you how.
3. Learn to "read" the cookies and temporary internet files to figure out where your kid is going if / when you aren't home.
4. Get a good filter.
5. Remember that in this day you don't have to worry about the child predator lurking behind the bush at the playground - you have to worry about him / her lurking on message boards or chat pretending to be a 13 year old kid.
6. Still doesn't work? Scare the pee pee out of them. Find the story on Christina (can't think of her last name)..the young, pretty cheerleader who was 13 or 14 and was supposed to be meeting a boy her own age. He ended up being a grown man that choked her to death and threw her in a creek.
I am tagging (not 20 because I think that's excessive): Mert, Mix, & Melissa.
