Archive for 2008/09
Pandora Radio keeping me company
Lately I’m been enjoying online tunes through Pandora Radio. An old school techie, Jay Coley, President of Editware who began his computing days with punch cards for memory (?!!?!? dinosaur days!) turned me on to this site.
You type in some group you like and it finds music that’s similar to it. Basically, you can [...]
The Simplifier #73 is Online
The seventy-third issue of the Project Simplify newsletter The Simplifier is now archived on our newsletter archives page.
Here is a brief summary of the contents:
1. A Note From Shawn
Chargin’ women doing awesome stuff
2. Our Featured Quote
by Suze Orman
3. Interview: Gayle Greco – Creating a Healthy Business
by PS Head Simplifier Shawn Tuttle
4. Your Simplification Tip
Recognizing the [...]
Fall 2008 Organizing Special
Also known as the popular “thank-goodness-it’s-no-longer-105-degrees-fall-organize-your-office special”, this offer will do a wham-bam-alakazam job on your office.
By the time we are done, you’ll have a cleared off desk, your foundation containers set-up (Easy Access Station, reference binder, etc) and “defined”, a maintenance system, and a file map to whip your files into shape.
On-site: (2) [...]
Workshop stories
Last week I did a workshop covering the Natural Professional foundation. I was fortunate to have an engaged, responsive group.
One of the things I wondered about afterward was the feasibility of dividing a group, OR offering two different versions: one for the lefty brains and one for the righty brains. My concern was that [...]
Trying to Contain Your Enthusiasms
This article was originally published in The Simplifier #72.
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Article: Trying to Contain Your Enthusiams
By Shawn Tuttle
It’s back-to-school time and kids are getting supplies for the new year. Have you, too, been picking up organizing supplies for an office that “slipped away” over the summer? Perhaps you’ve been hoarding creatively-labeled files, containers [...]
2 Minute timers
A couple of years ago, David Allen (of Getting Things Done fame) offered a 2 minute timer to assist people in sticking with the 2 minute rule when processing their inbox. He charges $10 for this which was $10 more than many bloggers and programmers were willing to pay for what is, apparently to them, [...]
Project brain dumping
Here’s a sweet gem from a fellow mobile worker (I hadn’t seem him there before) at the cafe today. He saw me brainstorming with pen and large piece of paper and he said:
“I did that recently for a project. I had all this info about it in my head. I was working with [...]


