Nate with Yoda
September 10, 2007
During the recording for tomorrow’s podcast, a very special guest stop by the studio. So I thought I’d give you a quick preview of what’s coming up. Check out this short audio clip, and see if you can guess who stopped by. I’ll give you a hint: he’s two feet tall, green, and balding. Oh, and he’s one mean mo-fro with a light saber.
A Recipe For Getting More Done!
September 10, 2007
How to Bake a Productivity Cake. A Recipe to get more done! [11:33m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
This Podcast Explores How to Bake a Productivity Cake … a Recipe For Getting More Done.
The presentation covers:
Productivity is a piece of cake! It doesn’t have to be difficult to become organized and productive. When dealing with overwhelmingly complex challenges, the best solution is always the simplest that solves the problem.
The four raw ingredients necessary for optimized personal productivity are:
• Single Source Prioritization
• Efficient File Systems
• A Programmed/Prepared Environment
• Efficient Work-Flow Process
Throughout the day we can be engaged in three kinds of activities:
• Processing Activities (preproduction)
• Prioritizing activities (preproduction)
• Producing Activities
Most productivity is lost durring “preproduction.” Inefficiencies in preproduction rob us of about 20% of our time.
Goal: Get the 20% back! This is accomplished through building more efficient strategies for processing and prioritizing, and can save 1-2 hours per day.
The four raw ingredients help us get the 20% back.
You Can Bet on This
September 4, 2007
Casinos are designed to ensure their patrons lose all track of time and of course money.
Have you ever been inside a casino? I have … Six hours and two hundred dollars latter I was wondering what had just happened? I could hardly believe that I spend almost half my waking hours, and all my hard earned money … on purpose. Sure enough, I had. How does this happen?
Well folks, it’s all by design - quite literally. A casino’s main goal is to get gamblers in and keep them there as long as possible. They accomplish this through a method called “environmental programming”.
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5 New Podcast Quick Tips!
September 4, 2007
In an effort to give N8tip subscribers more options, I’ve decided to add audio to most of my posts. For those of you on the go, you can now enjoy N8tip in your car, while working out, or whatever.
If you currently use iTunes, you can find me listed under “Nate’s Productivity Tips” under the podcasts section of the iTunes store (all my podcasts are free!). You can also listen to and download them right here at the N8tip.com site.
If a post has audio, you’ll see the player (See picture). I’ve also decided to add audio to some of my earliest posts. You can find them liked at the bottmo of this post. Most are just 2-4 minutes long, that’s why I call them quick tips (I’m clever that way 
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If you’d like to check out the original posts here they are:
Monkey See, Monkey Do Prioritization
What You and Pavlov’s Dog Should Not Have in Common.
Go Ahead, Give Them the Finger and Finish Your Thought!
September 4, 2007
That’s if we’re talking about the “just a minute, let me finish my thought” finger.
Preferably, this would be your index finger, but use whichever you think you can get away with. It’s probably best to save “tall man” for the commute home anyways (kidding of course).
