Everyone thinks this is lame. I think it’s COOL :-)
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“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama
Kiva Status: 2 More Loans Repaid & Reinvested
In the meantime 2 of my 7 remaining open loans have been repaid 100%. I reinvested the money to two groups in Tanzania.
My Kiva-Status (since February 2007):
# 11 loans
# 4 fully repaid
# 7 open loans
# 0% default rate
# Feeling: I love it
Here is the status of some of my Kiva-Friends:
# Kolja (coverage 1 & coverage 2)
# Exsila
# Alfonso Rodriguez (coverage)
# Stefan (coverage)
If you’re also a Kiva-Friend, please leave a comment with your status :-).
Some Brainstore-News (or Olds ;-)
I’ve just checked out what my favourite idea-factory Brainstore (my previous coverage) was up to in the last couple of months.
News:
# They opened a Blog
# They opened an office in Germany
Some cool Brain-pics:
Brainbag:
Brush up
As you may have noticed, I did a little brush up here. Hope you like it :-).
Video: New Offices of cyon
A week ago, my friends over at cyon moved to their new offices. Take a look:
Link: sevenload.com
Good job, Dave! It looks great!
How I got my E-mails DONE in Three Simple Steps!
Preface
Until November 2007 my e-mail-handling was a MESS! My inbox was full of JUNK and I had no SYSTEM. So basically I started hating e-mail. But then on my trip to Silicon Valley I finally read David Allen‘s Getting Things Done and things started changing. I’m using the system for almost 4 months now and it works TREMENDOUSLY well, meaning that my productivity and responsiveness has increased significantly.
Step 1: Get yourself a Gmail account
Gmail is my primary email-software. I’ve centralized all emails in gmail and I have one private and one professional account. I’m using Gmail primarily for over 2 years now and I’m very happy.
Step 2: Prepare 3 simple labels/folders
That’s all you need. Trust me!
Step 3: Process your STUFF every day!
Go to your inbox, pick one email at a time and decide among the following options:
a) If you can answer within 2 minutes, answer now. If you don’t have 2 minutes, label it @ACTION.
b) If you can’t answer within 2 minutes, choose @ACTION or @SOMEDAY/MAYBE.
c) If it’s junk, archive or delete.
d) If it’s regulary junk, put up a filter.
If you write an email and know you will have to follow-up or need something back, then go to your Sent Mail and label it with @WAITING FOR.
Don’t forget to delegate. If something can be done by someone else more efficiently, then delegate it and label the Sent Mail with @WAITING FOR.
When you’re done processing your inbox, go to your three labels and review everything regularly to have a complete overview. Caution: Don’t forget to actually DO the emails in your @ACTION box!!!
Very important: It’s crucial that you process 100% of your e-mails. Get your inbox to ZERO!!! I do it every day a couple of times and it feels GREAT!
DONE!
YES!!!
PS: As you may see in the last picture, I have also the labels @CONSULTING and @PARTNERSHIPS. These are individual modifications. Feel free to make adjustments according to your requirements. GTD is a very flexible system.
PPS: I recommend reading the GTD-book before starting. It will give you a better understanding of the whole system.
PPPS: I also have around 30 topical labels (e.g. Trigami Accounting) that enable me to find archived things faster.
PPPPS: I’m looking forward to get your feedback. If something is not clear yet, please ask questions and I will refine my posting to make it more usable and understandable.
PPPPPS: Please help to spread the word: DIGG This & YiGG This! (I have the feeling that this could become one of the most popular postings I’ve ever written – please help me get there ;-).
PPPPPPS: I also found a useful video called "Inbox Zero"
Flavio on Scobleizer
Robert did a video interview with Flavio at LIFT.
Congrats Flavio!
(via Flavio)
PS: He did a video with Dominik, too, talking about Qik (which seems to be quite cool, but still has some performance issues).
