September 19th, 2008 by Brian Cors
About a year ago, I purchased a Palm Treo 650 with the hope that the device would not only combine my cell phone, calendar, contact list and email inbox into a single device, but that it would allow these elements to interact in ways not possible with separate devices.
I haven’t been disappointed.
In particular, I like the way I can search through my entire list of contacts to find and dial the person I’d like to call. I also like the way that the Treo uses the phone number of an incoming call to look up and display the name of the contact who is calling, enabling me to decide which calls to answer and which calls to send to voicemail.
The Treo 650 uses the Palm operating system. Relative to what I’ve seen and read about with regard to Windows-based Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), the Palm operating system is much simpler to use and requires fewer stylus taps to accomplish the same tasks.
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September 6th, 2008 by Brian Cors
As I stood in a very long line on a recent Saturday at CostCo to return a faulty monitor that I had purchased there, I thought to myself: what a waste of time. I had picked the busiest day of the week to visit CostCo and, as a result, I was spending a significant amount of time simply waiting.
Obviously, I was not optimizing my time and my day.
Fast forward to a few days later. It’s mid-afternoon – the time of day when I’m least effective with sit-still “thinking” activities – and I’m trying to write an article for The Productivity Edge, but my mind keeps drifting and I can’t seem to produce meaningful prose with any efficiency. It’s taking me twice as long as it normally does to write the article.
Once again, I was not making the most effective and efficient use of my time.
Sound familiar? Without proper planning and discipline, it’s easy to fall into traps whereby you are not fully optimizing your time, talents and energy. The pressure in today’s society to do it now, have it now and have it all exacerbates the situation. By planning ahead and rationing our impulsive urges, we are better able to optimize our limited time and energy on a daily basis.
Here are some suggestions to help you optimize your time and energy…
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About a year ago, I purchased a Palm Treo 650 with the hope that the device would not only combine my cell phone, calendar, contact list and email inbox into a single device, but that it would allow these elements to interact in ways not possible with separate devices.