This is something I got from one of my favorite blogger, Leo Babauta (isn’t it obvious that he’s one of my favorites?!). I also have several queues in my life now. I think one of the main things is my gmail inbox. I have found a way to deal with that though and I’ve done quite well, I think, GTD style.

Thus far, this series of articles have shown the following: that the world we have is a world that cannot wait which on the one hand is necessary for efficiency and organization. On the other hand, there are paradoxes we see in this world that cannot wait such as the discovery that while you can organize the people around you, you cannot even make an appointment with yourself; that while the world has become so fast and while distances have been covered, and breadth has been bridged, the world that we have cannot go deep; and that while technology’s goal has been to connect everyone in the planet, people are also building walls to break the connection. Now, in order to have a chance at bridging these paradoxes, we need a certain kind of attitude. This attitude is a philosophical one: to wait for self to catch up with self, to open up to vulnerability and commitment, and to accept ambiguity and mystery. Philosophy, which is experienced as waiting, and while waiting, may seem to go against the grain of the world that cannot wait. But if we are to recover ourselves, our relationship with the other, our relationship with the Absolute—which is also the recovery of the paradoxes of our lives—then we need to wait.

Long ago, there lived a King. This King should have been content with his life, given all the riches and luxuries he had. However, this was not the case. The King always found himself wondering why he just never seemed content with his life. Sure, he had the attention of everyone wherever he went, attended fancy dinners and parties, but somehow, he still felt something was lacking and he couldn’t put his finger on it.

One person’s dirty wall is another’s canvas. Paul “Moose” Curtis uses the dirt of the urban landscape as a backdrop for creating art. In a downtown San Francisco tunnel, for instance, the accumulated soot on the walls is a perfect backdrop for him to selectively spray away the black using wooden stencils. The result is the appearance of large botanical murals. He calls his process “reverse graffiti.”

Freemind is the best no-cost tool I have found to create MindMaps.

A mind map is a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks, or other items linked to and arranged around a central key word or idea. Mind maps are used to generate, visualize, structure, and classify ideas, and as an aid in study, organization, problem solving, decision making, and writing.

I’ve done this myself so I know this works and I know how helpful it is to have a minimalist computer/laptop when you want to be productive.

I myself have an uncluttered laptop (see picture), with three folders: 1 INBOX, 2 MITS (or Most Important Tasks) and 3 WP (or WordPress for all my blogging related activities). The explanation of how to use this is discussed below. I have also added my own comments.

Had a session with a group the other week that were adamant about how teamwork is very important for their group. They said that they have worked in companies where teamwork is not as important as getting the job done, and they were miserable.

Here’s something from BNET about teamwork. Read and learn.