I’ve been writing about GTD and agile methods for a long time. But they are not a focus of this blog, and more of a byproduct of my approach to marketing and staying on top of all the social media channels and posts I need to accomplish during any given day or week or year. But I am very set in my ways. And some of them might be helpful to you, so I decided to collect the GTD (Getting Things Done) and Productivity Posts into this thread to help you find some of the best tools I’ve found in doing my day job. [Note: I owe the "kick ass" phrase to Kathy Sierra.]

Let me know what I’ve missed and I’ll see what I can do about adding your strategy and productivity tip here.

• Getting Things Done Primer – It’s All About Doing It, not THINKING About Doing It

A few moments of pause before we jump in:

• Getting to This Moment of Happiness and Lessons Learned Along the Way
• Love Money Ambition: Finding Your Sweet Spot and Career
• Letters to a Young Artist – creative life series

Simple GTD

• Early Bird Attack Plan: Try GTD at the Same Time Every Day
• There is Never Enough Time: So… What’s Your Plan?
• How To Generate Strategic Content for Social Media?
• Where Do You Pay Attention – The Cost of Attention Deficit and Economic Recessions
• It’s Not ADD Mom, It’s Attention Deficit Trait – I’m Learning To Be This Way

Quick and Agile

• Agile Leadership in the Real World & For Personal Use
• Make Your Meetings Rock, Every Time: Consulting Like Clockwork
• Digital Trust & Digital Tools To Accelerate Global Collaborations
• Crack the Motivational Code: Put a Ding In Our Universe and Your Team’s Universe
• Getting Together: Webinar Systems and the Search for a Collaborative Framework
• Agile Leadership: Steve Ballmer on Old Meetings vs New Meetings
• Zen and the Tennisball Machine – Alone with Patience and Agility

Ninja Leadership

• Letters to a Young Artist in the Digital Age – Your Personal Creative Cloud
• Let’s Talk About Your Evil Plan(tm) – Yeah, But What Else Are You Doing?
• "Who Asked You to Do This?" and the Critical Path to Work Success
• Creating Passionate Teams – Encouraging Smart People to Want to Contribute or NOT.
• Bungle in the Jungle or What’s In a Snipe: Graham’s Hierarchy of Disagreement
• Social Media Strategies: Calculating the ROI on a Social Networking Saturday
• Collecting Energy: Are You a Collector, Generator, or User?
• Are You Doing What Matters in Work and Life? Redirecting Your Day
• Plussing or Dividing: How Are You Showing Up in the World?
• Leadership and Teamwork: Mixed Doubles Anyone?
• The First Cut: Applying The Way of the Sword to Life and Tennis
• An Inspiring Leader Is: Inspired Themselves and Usually Short on Time
• Mental Jujitsu: Nothing Ever Works Out, Get Over It and Get to Work

Get Social with Me

• Getting Twitter Under Control: Tweetdeck Setup for Listening
• Your Next Ninja Move: Return Notifications on Your Email
• Critical Path Strategies: Digital Marketing
• Your Business Dashboard: Hack Your Browser for Efficiency
• The Six Pillars of Online Reputation and Brand Management
• Online Collaborator’s Toolkit: The Sharing Tools You Need to Web It Up!
• Managing the Information Overload of Social Media
• Are You a Connector? Giving Referrals & Recommendations Is Part of Your Work
• Social Media: Dreaming Won’t Cut It – What’s Your Plan, Where’s Your Map?
• Who Are You Eating With? Notice Who You Are Inviting To Lunch
• Improving the Signal-to-Noise Ratio in Life and Social Media
• Social Media Workflow: What’s Your Daily Cadence for Sharing on Social Networks [infographic]
• The Social Economy: I’m Trying to Give It Away, What’s the Problem? (So Is Everyone Else)
• Drawing the Circles Around LinkedIN Contacts – Social Media for Business of Any Size
• What’s Your Social Media STACK? Application Framework? Social Media Workflow?
• Doin Social Media – WIIFM – Whuffie – Creating Beauty Online and WIIFY
• Going Incognito: Top Secret Browsing Has Important Uses

Life Work – Zen Blend

• Writing a Plan for Your Future – A Career Path Template (Downloadable)
• Life Streaming: Resetting Your Digital Map for Efficiency & Success
• The Fallacy of Just-In-Time Learning: We All Know Everything (Just Google It)
• Is Blurring the Lines Between Business and Creativity Acceptable? re: writer, musician, marketer
• Positive Forces: Delayed, Deflected, Divorced, Distracted, But Not Deterred
• Positive Momentum: How Do You Generate Your Forward Thinking?
• Dear Graduate – a Toolkit for Learners and Job Hunters
• More of This and Less of That, Please – Thursday Morning Coffee
• Resetting Priorities: "You have no events scheduled today."
• Close of Business Rituals: End Your Week and Reset for What’s Next
• What You Capture and What You Share Is What You ARE (Do You Listen to the Sound of Your Own Voice?)
• Social Creative Content: Simplifying My Passion For Social Media Marketing
• Cutting Back on My Social Scene and Focusing the Conversation
• Mapping Your Own Social Media Genome: Managing the Parts as a Whole
• 3 Ways To Reset When the Day Seems To Be Getting Away From You (Work-Life In Balance?)
• Sometimes We Miss: Other Times We Are Like Birds on a Branch Together
• InBox ZERO is MINE! Today is Feburary 1st, and I am an InBox ZERO Hero!
• Capture and Share Your Experience to Become a Leader: the Blogging Path
• Ambient Findability and Spimes – The Garden of Forking Paths – We Are There!
• Tao Te Ching – at ease in your own life (translation by Stephen Mitchell)
• Communicate unceasingly – Your passion, vision and strategy*

@jmacofearth (also seen on Google+: jmacofearth) permalink: https://uber.la/2014/08/help-you-kick-ass/

Check out the Strategist’s Notebook page and these other posts about online marketing:

• Workin Facebook < all the Facebook Posts in one place
• uber.la quickies < a streamlined takeaway from today’s best marketing sources
• Social Media University < 2 minute educational videos
• Social Business MBA < the reading list
• Becoming a Social Media Rockstar: The Quick Path < um… let’s discuss

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