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In order for me to increase my practical experience I am offering free life coaching to a limited number of people. This will predominately be telephone and email based, with the potential for video conference sessions.

If you would like help with clarifying your life, feel that you could be achieving a lot more than at present, are in a rut, or just need a friendly, but occasionaly critical mentor who will demand that you hold yourself to a much higher standard, then feel free to contact me and I will be happy to explain things in more detail.

I must point out though that this is a very limited offer of high quality coaching at no charge, so if you have been considering the benefits of your own Life Coach contact me soon.

But since updating to the version 10 product I’ve had to trade more eye candy and some potentially useful new tools for speed. And this is now getting in the way, and creating a definite psychic resistance.

The litmus test for me has been that a few times now I have deliberately looked at my diary with the built in palm app, as I can no longer stand the 2-5 second delay that Agendus is causing. It’s an irritation and it’s causing me to be less effective.

Apparently I’m not the only one with this complaint…

10.02 Slow Speed Still Exists - iambic Forums

One of the reasons I stick with palm is the instant on, instant go philosophy. I want the ‘turn on, click icon, check info, turn off, get back on with what I was doing’ system, and now Agendus isn’t cutting it.

So I’m on the lookout for a simple icon addition to the palm datebook, or else may even go back to vanilla.

It details the research that companies such as Microsoft and Apple are doing to try and find a way for our computers to work in a less distracting way.

One of the lessons I totally agree with was that by using a bigger monitor, and allowing the user to keep a good overall picture of what they’re working on, they are far less knocked back by interruptions.

Also, mention is made of the benefits of simplifying our todo lists and capture methods. So out with the Palm and in with the hipster PDA? There is certainly a convincing argument here, and I am looking at reducing the number of apps that I use to further complicate what should be an effortless system, but for now I want to work towards a single palm based solution.

David Allen: NY Times Mag article today on Life Hackers

So for all you fans out there, here’s the whole experience:-

1) The Gromit Mug and Tea Pack

2) Making the Tea

3) Watch Gromit’s nose turn red

4) TaDa!!

You add the sites you regularly subscribe to, or if you don’t have the url you can use the ever present searchbox. The page then collects all of the RSS feed data for you.

Once you have a few sites, you can scroll through all of the stories to pick anything that looks interesting using a slider on the left.

Not all sites seem to work correctly yet. I found that one of my favourites moleskinerie does not display the whole post, but you can click to the original story as posted on the site to see everything.

Google Reader

How many times do you make todo lists in various places, rather than keep disciplined and just have one? I know for sure that I’m guilty of this.

And do you overplan, overcomplicate or over hack your lists, rather than actually get on with the work? Guilty again!!

Using a Day Planner as a Life Planner

I tried out Typepad, and I did think it was a nice interface and a good service. But I just couldn’t seem to see how the cost provided me with that many more benefits than what I have here. I liked the ability to post lists, Amazon wishlists and similar information, but again these things were add-ons. The actual meat of the blog was very similar to what I already have.

So for the moment I stay.

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