Black Belt Productivity

I was greatly saddened when I learned yesterday that Vitalist has unwisely changed their pricing structure. I had heard about it on another blog (whose name escapes me). So I went to the Vitalist blog, The Net Effect, and read the article detailing the changes.

I was shocked at what I was reading. Basically, the free accounts will let you have 5 contacts/contexts/projects. This is outrageous. You can upgrade to $5/month (Basic) and get 25 + 250MB of storage, and even further to $10/month (Premium) and get unlimited with 1GB of storage.  It seems that they have adapted the Nozbe pricing structure, and that was one of the biggest turn off for me earlier this year.

I was tagged by Stephen about the most influential books in my life. I don’t have quite as many as He does, but they are just as important to my life.

1. The Bible - I have been a Christian for most of my 35 years on this earth. First in the Roman Catholic Church and the last 10 years in the church of Christ. It is the model that I try to live my life by, and the model that I am trying to teach my children.

Lately, I have become torn with my selection of contexts. I am in IT so I have quite a number of computer related contexts and lately, I have found that it is easier to put everything on my mGTD that I keep with Moleskine Planner/Notebook. There are columns for next action, context, project, waiting for and S/M on the mGTD. I have found myself writing down NA for all of my tasks. Sometimes I will drop a context in the list, sometimes, when applicable, I will put the project down. I do us the waiting for column a lot.

Happy New(ly Productive) Year!

Hello to all of our readers. I apologize for the lack of post in the new year. Over the break, I found out that my email server box is slowly beginning to die, so I have been frantically trying to get things in place for a new email server at my work. I hope to start posting more very soon.

I have had growing frustration while reading the Official Forums at DavidCo. It seems that there is an increasing amount of posts that follow the same form:

Frank Meeuwsen (whatsthenextaction.com) and his girlfriend, Helie, on the birth of their little girl, Tess Moana Meeuwsen, on September 12. He got around to posting the announcement today.

Congrats, Frank!

- Michael

As many of you know, I just returned from New York. I learned a hard lesson when I arrived at LaGuardia last Saturday. Typically, I have carried my computer bag on the plane as a lone carry on.

It rained that Saturday in New York. This put several flights from O’Hare in Chicago back to back to back in arriving to New York. So when I arrived, our luggage did not come on the plane with us (I thought there was some law in place about this because of terrorism, but maybe I am wrong). We waited around for an hour until the next plane arrived. Fortunately, our luggage came on the next flight. So we were ok.