@ColterReed

I help you get the day-to-day out of the way so you can stop chasing the dream and start living the dream.

 Silicon Valley, CA
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Joined April 2008
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If you want to get ahead, learn to take initiative. colterreed.com/7-reasons-to-…
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Your life could be a masterpiece. You just have to figure out the parts that don’t belong there. colterreed.com/what-do-you-r…
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The most common reason our plans fail lays squarely on us. colterreed.com/how-to-take-a…

How to Take a Ruthless Look Back at Your Week

There are two reasons a plan can fail. Here’s a simple tip that will let you know which it was.

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Automation doesn’t have to be highly technical. There are plenty of easy and effective low-tech solutions to get high-quality, repeatable results in a fraction of the time. colterreed.com/how-to-automa…
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Sooner or later, life is going to hit you in the face. Here’s how to roll with the punches and bounce right back. colterreed.com/how-to-plan-f…
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Don’t get stuck deciding which task is the most important one to work on. Here are ten questions to help you break the gridlock. colterreed.com/how-to-break-…

How to Break Through the Syndrome Syndrome

When everything’s important, nothing is. Here are 10 questions you can ask to see which tasks are more important so you can start there.

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Live your life without asterisks. colterreed.com/live-without-…

Live without Asterisks

Focus on being truly great, and let the accolades follow. Nothing undermines an accomplishment like a caveat in the footnotes.

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Some things we’re really good at. What about the rest? colterreed.com/how-to-turn-y…

How To Turn Your Weaknesses Into Strengths

Become strong where you’re weak so you don’t become weak where you’re strong.

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Procrastination is the thief of time. —Edward Young
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Any change you can see coming is something you can prepare for. colterreed.com/four-tips-for…

Four Tips for Springing into Daylight Saving Time

Starting Daylight Saving Time is the harder transition to make. Here are four tips to take losing an hour of sleep in stride.

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Productivity is noble, but it’s the means, not the end. Take time to enjoy your achievements, too. colterreed.com/you-need-to-s…

You Need to Speed Things Up (and Slow Things Down)

How we measure time is not how we experience it. We need both.

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Start with the tasks that will have the biggest impact. Those big rocks are what move the needle. colterreed.com/prioritized-d…
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Productivity is going from here to there because you want something to change. colterreed.com/is-productivi…

Is Productivity Just a Thing You Do at Work?

We tend to think of productivity as something that we do at work, or something that is most applicable to work. What about the two-thirds of our lives we…

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Paper and digital calendars complement each other nicely. Here’s how to set up your system to get the best of both technologies. colterreed.com/how-to-use-di…

How to Use Digital and Paper Calendars Together

Paper and digital calendars complement each other nicely. Here’s how to set up your system to get the best of both technologies.

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Does erasable ink vanish if you leave your planner in the hot sun? Maybe, but you can get it back. colterreed.com/will-you-lose…

Will You Lose Everything with an Erasable Pen?

An erasable pen is flexible and professional. If you accidentally erase your entire planner, here’s how you can get it back.

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Goals are a powerful tool, but they’re just a tool. Don’t confuse the tools with what you’re building. colterreed.com/the-tragic-fl…

The Tragic Flaw that Makes Most Goals Meaningless

Most goals don’t have the impact they should because we’re using them wrong.

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What we do depends on how we feel about what we know. colterreed.com/how-do-you-fe…
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Praise, instruction, and encouragement are the best recipe to help someone change. colterreed.com/how-to-help-s…

How to Help Someone Change with PIE

The classic Criticism Sandwich may not be that effective. Here’s a three-step framework to help change someone’s behavior that won’t undermine your influence.

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Here’s how to track Urgent and Important tasks using what’s built-in to OmniFocus. colterreed.com/tracking-urge…

Tracking Urgent and Important Tasks in OmniFocus

Ideally, we spend most of our time working in Quadrant 2, doing important work early, while you still have time to do quality work. OmniFocus lets you track…

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You could learn the equivalent of a college degree every four years on your way to work. colterreed.com/transform-you…

Transform Your Life During Your Daily Commute

A book in a week. A college class in a month. A college degree every four years for the rest of your life.

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