Author Archives: The Dude

The very first thing you need under your belt before you can become a top performer, in what ever field you work, a sport or personal endeavor, is how to create good habits. Without the ability to create good habits and having good habits, you are flying blind. Top performers are there because they’ve already […]

Before I get to describing the Good Change Done system (GCD) that this website is all about, let’s look at some of the most famous productivity systems out there. Tops on that list is probably Getting Things Done (GTD). It is by far the most famous, so we’ll look at that and a few others […]

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication – Leonardo DaVinci I decided to take some of the best concepts from some of the best productivity systems ever invented, including, David Allen’s Getting Things Done and Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits of Successful People, add some other useful concepts like Agile, and distill them into a very simple and […]

The title I wanted for this blog was going to be kaizen-zumi, which means getting good change done, the Japanese literal translation is improvement finished. This encapsulates the principle problem with most people’s lack of productivity, not that they have too many things to do, but rather the things they take on are never really […]