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		<title>Why a Four-Hour Workday is Enough</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the most eye-opening articles on productivity I&#8217;ve ever read is Scott Young&#8217;s piece about four-hour workdays. I knew I was spending way more time &#8220;working&#8221; than actually doing work, but it didn&#8217;t occur to me exactly how much time I&#8217;d been wasting &#8212; an entire half-day, it turns out! Scott does a great [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Get Sidetracked by Tasks You Can&#8217;t Control</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When you&#8217;ve got a stressful week ahead, it&#8217;s easy to get overwhelmed by everything that has to go right. For everything you have to do, there&#8217;s probably some other task that depends on someone else. It&#8217;s frustrating when outcomes are totally out of your hands, but there are ways to deal with it. The most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perfection is the Enemy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a famous quotation, attributed to Voltaire, that goes &#8220;The perfect is the enemy of the good.&#8221; I couldn&#8217;t agree more. One of the biggest obstacles to getting something done well, or done at all, is trying to get it done perfectly. If you&#8217;re struggling to overcome your own perfectionist impulses, you might be interested [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://task.fm/blog/2010/03/perfection-is-the-enemy/</link>
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		<title>You Hate It: How To Get It Done Anyway</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Even when you&#8217;re totally satisfied with your job, you&#8217;ll occasionally run into a task that you just. don&#8217;t. want. to. do. For lack of a better word, this task sucks. You can get through it and make it less painful, though. And once you do, you&#8217;ll be able to move on to the stuff you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://task.fm/blog/2010/03/you-hate-it-how-to-get-it-done-anyway/</link>
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		<title>Build a Buffer Now, You&#8217;re Going to Need It Later</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the tough lesson I learned this week: with any regular project (especially a blog), it&#8217;s always a very, very good idea to have a buffer. Having a few extra posts in your back pocket for a rainy day could really save your butt if you need to take an unexpected break. That&#8217;s what happened [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My iPhone&#8217;s Waking Me Up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[If you like this post, check out Anthony's earlier Task Blog post, "My iPhone's Putting Me to Sleep."] Sometimes, there&#8217;s no better source of motivation than a new toy. Sure, some people buy new iPods and workout clothes and never go running, or buy a new guitar and never play it, but the toy I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://task.fm/blog/2010/02/my-iphones-waking-me-up/</link>
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		<title>How Some of the Best Designers Get Past Creative Blocks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During a bout of (admittedly unproductive) websurfing last week, I came across one of the most compelling, fantastic, must-bookmark-this-now articles I&#8217;ve seen in a long time. ISO50 posted 25 strategies for overcoming creative blocks, contributed by some of the most impressive creative folks around. The roster of illustrators and designers features some eye-popping names, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://task.fm/blog/2010/02/how-some-of-the-best-designers-get-past-creative-blocks/</link>
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		<title>Social Media Overload: Is Google Buzz the Last Straw?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With Facebook, Twitter, and now Google Buzz, we&#8217;re more and more likely to have social media streams so enormous that it&#8217;s physically impossible to read everything our &#8220;friends&#8221; post. How did it get this way, and how can we regain our sanity? Walk with me through a brief history of the way social media took [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://task.fm/blog/2010/02/google-buzz-social-media-overload/</link>
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		<title>Five Types of People Who Will Destroy Your Productivity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, forces outside your control can completely torpedo your chances of getting work done. Forces like, for example, other people. I&#8217;m fairly sure that when Sartre wrote &#8220;Hell is other people,&#8221; he wasn&#8217;t thinking of your obnoxious graphic design client or the cousin who wants you to do his taxes for free. When I write [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://task.fm/blog/2010/02/five-types-of-people-who-destroy-productivity/</link>
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		<title>Is Inbox Zero Really the Goal?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Inbox Zero, the policy of making sure you&#8217;ve acted on, delegated or deleted all your email, has become something of a productivity holy grail since Merlin Mann gave his famous talk about it at Google a few years ago. I personally love Inbox Zero, but some people are skeptical about an empty inbox as the [...]]]></description>
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