Cozi is a website and mobile app intended to help families stay organized. Its features include allowing multiple family members to manage schedules with one account, as well as organize and update shopping and to-do lists. [mc4wp_form id=”121652″] A look at Cozi. What it looks like, the functionality, and how I personally use it.
When reviewing any form of Project Management (PM), most agree there are five main phases. The Primary Five Phases include: Initiation Planning Execution Monitoring Closure Initiation This is when you will research whether the project is feasible and if it should be undertaken. If feasibility testing needs to be done, this is the stage of…
By definition the Zeigarnik effect is the psychological tendency to remember an uncompleted task rather than a completed one or the desire to finish something that is incomplete. It nags at you, till it is done. The idea of unfinished tasks using a significant amount of your mental resources, even when you are not directly…
Success can be defined by many things. When one thinks of success, the idea tends to lean toward those making it big in this world. Cornelius Vanderbilt (May 27, 1794 – 1877) Vanderbilt amassed his fortune through his dominance of railroads and shipping. He built and controlled many of the most significant railroads in America,…
By definition a habit a recurrent, often unconscious pattern of behavior that is acquired through frequent repetition. A more psychological definition is, A long-standing pattern of learned behavior; often contrasted with a specific way. See SET. set, which is a temporary or recently Habit is one of the most pervasive of all aspects of behavior….
One of the areas I find myself circling back too is the knowledge base. Perhaps I spend too much energy, but I want to get the best method in maintaining resources, citations, definitions, and overall knowledge content. This must be in a repository for easy use. By definition a knowledge base is a technology used…
Let’s face it, we cannot recall everything. Sure there are those out there providing methods to memory recall. However, if you learning something new, or have that awesome nugget of information come your way, what better way than write it down for later. Writing next week’s newsletter, I came across some pretty solid evidence note-taking…
When you delve into the time-management, organization subject, GTD comes up quickly. David Allen has created a legion of believers with his phenomenon concept. Since then, additional concepts and expanded methods have been created, based off his core philosophy. I recently wrote on P.A.R.A. technique. What exactly is the GTD way? Charles Duhigg comments in…
Data sets are used all the time. Those outside of the world of metrics and computers put little thought into it. However, all processes, actions, and movement provide information in a data set. By definition a data set is a collection of information organized as a stream of bytes in logical record and block structures…
In my article covering P.A.R.A., I defined projects as the following. ” Projects are those tasks within a series providing a goal or deadline. Another way to define a project is an individual or collaborative enterprise that is carefully planned to achieve a particular aim. “ We all have projects, even if we do not…
