I have become fascinated with Internet and Social Media Marketing. This is probably dangerous as I know almost nothing about marketing as a profession or a discipline. I recently took over an Email bulletin for a local organization and found myself quickly obsessing over usage statistics and A/B tests, wherein I found that with the newfangled […]

There was a time I purchased books on impulse. This didn’t seem like a bad thing at the time, because reading is valuable, right? The problem was that I never got around to reading many of those books, and those books took up space while depleting our household bank account. When my wife and I moved […]

In a previous post I wrote about how to get started incorporating Getting Things Done (GTD) into your daily life immediately by setting aside time to conduct a Mind Sweep and compiling lists of Projects and Next Actions. That approach would probably take you anywhere between 30 minutes to several hours depending on how many loose threads […]

In a recent article, I wrote about an approach to implementing some of the most valuable pieces of Getting Things Done (GTD) immediately and reaping the benefits of having a structured approach to task management without waiting for the perfectly implemented system. This approach consists of setting aside some time (probably anywhere from 30 minutes to […]

You have probably heard the expression “Time is money”, which is often used in a business context to spur people to think wisely about how they use their time and to do quick mental calculations on whether there will be an ROI (“Return on Investment”) yielded for the time invested in something. I have even […]

Here is a guide designed to get you started on the Getting Things Done® (GTD®) productivity system immediately. If you are in a task management crisis, already know about GTD, and just want to know an easy way to get started, skip straight to the “Getting Started with GTD from Scratch: Pen and Paper” section. If you […]

As I write this on my desktop computer, my iPhone is standing upright beside me streaming the September 2015 Apple Special Event. This is a recipe for distraction, but time in the Bonham household is very limited as of late due to keeping up with our two girls (one a very busy toddler and the […]

Welcome to my new blog about the ways design thinking can be applied to almost everything in life. There is much more coming soon. Stay tuned!