Personal Productivity

I thought that it was time to rethink over the way I work, prioritise tasks and implement them.
Hence, I read up a few things on the web.
Found a couple of good resources and suggestions.

I have bookmarked the links at:

http://del.icio.us/amirivija/Productivity

I also subscribed to a couple of blogs on productivity.

Here are a few notes I made for myself based upon what all I read:

Things to implement:
1] Keep a record of the start and end times of different activities
2] Cut down e-mail alerts. cut down IM. Look at the e-mails only 4 times a day. [Morning, After Lunch, Before Leaving - set aside time for rss feeds ets]
3] Clarify objectives, before starting any work
4] Break down the big problem into smaller ones

5] Work tends to expand in the time available.. [so compartmentalize the work] Hence, shrink the time you are going to work.. [ Plan to work only for 5 hours per day]

6] Stop multi tasking..

7] Do the task that gives the most benefit.

8] Join a group to keep you motivated
1] Apping group
2] Build an online programming network

9] Picture of a goal : expert computer science engineer

10] be patient

11] seek inspiration - blogs, people , articles

12] never skip anything two days in a row

13] Apply the ""do it, delegate it, defer it, drop it"" rule for all the stuff that' clogging your system

I also stumbled across the book "Getting Things done" by david allen. I would like to read this book too.

This one also has pointers to some good stuff
http://zenhabits.net/2007/02/beginners-guide-to-gtd/

And last but not the least, I reorganised my Google reader feeds