I’ve had one all day and nothing I’ve tried seems to work. Ohh well.

As some of you may or may not know, I’ve been thinking about starting up a side business where I basically do what I do now, which is get paid to do peoples networking stuff for them. Well, I’ve already got a business card design in the works, and I want to make sure that from a tax standpoint, everything I was doing was correct. So I talked to one of the instructors at school to get the skinny on what I should do, should I get an LLC or a DBA. After talking to him I got a lot of my questions answered, and I decided to setup a DBA, mainly due to cost and the fact that this business doesn’t generate enough income to warrent being incorporated.

There’s a Microsoft seminar in Livonia that I’m going to next week. I get out of class for the day and it seems like a pretty cool experience. Also, there will be free stuff. I had to laugh as a I signed up, because I’m going to be a Linux guy with an Apple phone at a Microsoft event.

I actually went grocery shopping today for healthy food. Christ, I feel like a responsible adult.

I’ve decided to join Rob in his exercise challenge. You can find out more at the Joint Project page at the top.

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If I could just stay focused and productive like I was for a few hours today for most of the day, everyday, I’d be one of the most productive people ever. I got so much stuff done in like four hours and then I did squat. Hell, even writing this post is kinda painful.

Mike and I shooting for February for the start of our webcomic. In the coming days I’ll probably start putting artwork to build buzz among the half a dozen of you who read this.

On a side note, does anyone have any ideas for healthy snack food, I’d greatly appreciate it. This fat ass would like to be a former fat-ass

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I know I’ve said this before, but a couple days a week I’m going to try to have a post that fills a theme. And now on Sundays this year is going to be about how I get things done. Just as a disclaimer, I haven’t actually read any GTD novels, so I don’t know how things are supposed to work. These are just some things that work for me.

Like everyone else, I’ve tried numerous methods to keep track of stuff that I have to do, be it personal commitments or school or work assignments and whatnot. I’ve tried PDAs, scraps of paper, pocketmods, and using my phone to keep track of stuff. That’s when I stopped across this moleskine hack via Lifehacker. And I’ve decided to give it a try. I’ve set mine up almost exactly like he did, so if you’re interested in setting up the base GTD Moleskine.

The thing I like about the GTD Moleskine is that it is small. I’ve tried other methods that were a little bit more robust, but weren’t very portable. For those of you who haven’t worked with a moleskine before, they are really nice and I had wished that I had known about them before. The paper is of a very good quality and the leather cover is fairly tough. The flags I used are just some Post-it flags you can get anywhere.

One of the most important parts of the GTD method as I’ve gathered is the inbox/next action. The bulk of this moleskine is the inbox and it’s by fair the section that I used the most. Whenever I have something I have to do, be it reminding myself to blog or working on a project for school, I write it down in there. I find this extremely useful. I’ve tried to do this with digital devices but they were never this intuitive or quick. I don’t use the reference or interation bits as much as I should, but I probably should. One thing I need to do is go through my inbox and make sure everything is up towards the current page, denoted by the moleskine’s builtin bookmark.

This is where I break off from the design I based this off of and this is based off of my needs. As an amateur novelist and webcomic artist, I wanted a section of the moleskine for doodles and notes. I’ve created a simple template out of  a notecard and I use this section whenever an idea hits me that I don’t want to forget. Do to the nature of this section, it’s a lot less structured than how I have the rest of the moleskine setup.

Just like original, I have a projects and a someday/maybe section. I don’t utilize as much as I should. I will try to use these more this year, so that way they’re not just wasted pages.

All in all, I love it. I’m not scrambling to complete tasks and assignments anymore and I feel much more relaxed when I sit down to do work.  I do combine this with Google Calendar and my iPhone so I get alerts on important due dates and appointments that I know about in advanced, but for daily tasks, the GTD Moleskine works great for me.

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So I got home from hanging out with Caitlin, right? And I slipped in the driveway and rolled my ankle under my body. Which really sucks. It’s not broken and at worse it’s probably sprained. Lucky for me a buddy of mine is giving me a ride to poker, so that’s good. But I say it giveth because the Wings shutout the Dallas Stars earlier today. Oh well, what are you gonna do.

I also bought the Lifehacker book and I hope it will be full of productivity goodness.

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So I wanted some Coke, but we were out, so I had to drive to 7-11 and it is fucking cold out there.  I mean, crap, man.

I hate listening to the Fox in the morning. For people don’t know, the Fox is the local classic rock station here in Flint. I really don’t like listening to them. Not necessarily because of the music we play, although I’m not really a Zeppelin or Floyd fan. Mainly because all of their DJs sound like every DJ stereo type ever. Also the fact that they all sound to be still living in 70s. I swear if Banana didn’t play the Bob and Tom I wouldn’t even listen that station.

I had such huge plans today for after work. I was gonna get some cleaning done, do some other work, maybe call Cat, but I slept. Partially to blame was the paint fumes from work. They had us paint a wall green for use as a green screen and I think the paint fumes got to me a bit. Combine that with the fact that I took a benedryl after dinner and I was done for the count. I sometimes hate holiday weeks because of the fact that it feels that I never get anything done.

Yesterday, Rach commented on using my moleskine to keep track of stuff and probably tomorrow I’ll show what I was using it for.

And now your moment of Zen: http://youtube.com/watch?v=2XD8D47CtnA

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Don’t you just hate it when you sit down to post and you totally forget what you’re gonna post? Yeah, that totally just happened to me.

I have decided to make some personal changes this year. I’m going to loose weight and start eating right. I didn’t get right of the bat with it, but I figured hey, whatever, as long as it gets done it gets done, yeah? I’ve been reading sites like Lifehacker and such and I’m going to try to stick to a quasi-GTD philosophy.  I don’t know if I have the displine to do GTD to the letter, but my moleskine planner is working out pretty nicely. I’m actually going to try to get a book about this sort of thing. I really waste too much time not really doing anything.

On that note, how was everyone’s New Years? Hopefully more exciting than mine. Hopefully next post is more interesting

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