Resolutions, Goals and Personal Productivity Tools, December 1, 2005

Today's show is an open call-in show to help our listeners prepare for next year. Today we will learn about our listeners best personal productvity tools and help craft a plan for 2006.
Questions to be answered:

What would our listners like to see in future TechKnowDude Radio shows?

What are your main productivity tools?

Poll-New Years Resolutions/Goals? For/Against

TODAYS LINKS

Cloudmark-Spamfilter http://www.cloudmark.com/

Plan Plus for Outlook http://shopping.franklincovey.com/shopping/catalog/productsoftware.jsp?navAction=push&navCount=0&id=prod289

Microsoft Money-http://www.microsoft.com/money/default.mspx

David Allen Getting things Done-http://www.davidco.com/

Tommy Newberry-Success is Not An Accident-http://www.1percentclub.com/

Empowerment Consulting- Grow your business, grow your life! http://www.empowerbiz.net/

Learn TechKnowDude, Matthew Ledford's personal tactics to avoid email overload and to live/work consistent with a life mission.

TODAYS NOTES: To help you begin thinking about your mission, ask yourself some questions:

What are my greatest moments of happiness and fulfillment?

What are the activities of most worth to me in my personal life?

What are the activities of most worth to me in my professional life?

What are my natural gifts, talents, strengths, and abilities?

What am I motivated by, fascinated with, and passionate about?

How can I best contribute to my community?

Try the "Fast Write" Armed with this summary, you can then formulate your own mission statement. We recommend a "fast-write exercise" as a means of formulating a mission statement.

Find someplace where you will be free from distractions. Put on some music that inspires you. Start with a pen or pencil and a clean sheet of paper, or a blank document with your favorite word processor. Think about the above questions.

Then, just write. Don't worry about spelling, or grammar, or punctuation. You're simply trying to take what's milling about in your head and dump it where you can see it.

Write for about five minutes. If you go a little long or short, don't worry about it. Then take a look at what you've written.

Elaine Robinsons call great recommendation! READ THE DREAM GIVER-http://www.thedreamgiver.com/