Back-on-track and How do you make your workday most effective ?

On May 2nd, 2008 Henriette Weber wrote:

So - Im back in fulltime Toothless Tiger employment from june 1st. This is the right thing for me. This is the big dive into the open sea. I want to be more efficient evolving my workday - so my question is : what works for you ?

What I have found has worked for me:

- Skype and IM meetings late at night.
- drafting all my thoughts in the wordpress CMS on toothlesstiger.com
- using hiveminder and basecamp as a productivity tool
- getting energy by not reading emails more than at lunchtime and in the afternoon
- incubation on tech blogs instead of normal news sites - they don't teach me anything anyway


where I really need to improve is:

-keeping myself on track - as I said, hiveminder is cool for productivity but I think I need something else as well
-keeping focused and not being distracted by not-work-noise
-doing boring business stuff (economy etc) as well as fun stuff
-setting both short term as well as long term goals
-family/worklife balance - sharing a calendar with the rest of the fam and other stuff.
-more filters of data instead of just data =)


What I think I need to make things easier:

-Hiveminder as a CRM tool
- some other podcastgear so I can rekickstart GeekArmyKnife together with the amazing Duarte
. (Huge thanks to these awesome guys for inspiring me to start up again)

Please overload me with comments - I need as much inspiration as I can get =) ( especially to make productivity/effectivity easier)
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