Due to Molly’s incessant nagging (like I don’t already have a wife), I’ve turned on the Mobatalk comments system! Here’s how you use it.
1. Go to leave a comment in the normal fashion.
2. Click record a comment. Wait for the small flash app to load.
3. Record your message telling me how great I am.
4. Hit attach.
5. SUBMIT the comment in the normal fashion.
Should be some fun!
But only for the day.
If you haven’t been listening to TPN Rock recently, you should check it out. Ewan had this great idea to bring guest hosts on to play their favourite podsafe music. This week’s edition is by podcasting pioneer Eric Rice. Check it out. There is something about the energy and in ya faceness of his opening track, Get Ready by Head Pe, that reminds me of “Get Free†by ex-Aussie band The Vines.
Missing AllTunes? I am. I miss it like a lost limb. However, someone called Scottitude in the comments section of my old blog just posted this:
If you’re in the USA and haven’t been able to refill your AllTunes balance, Just do what I did:
From the Balance page, scroll to the bottom and click on the “Purchase Gift Certificate” button. On the next screen, Click on the “AllTunes Payment” button. You’ll reach an AllTunes login page so login and chuckle at the “pay by credit card” option because you’ve tried that countless times and it never works.
Then, click on the “Add Money by Credit Card” button anyway and chuckle again at the “select amount” options, because they haven’t worked either. Again, click the “Confirm Payment” button anyway.
You’ll arrive at a page displaying your basic (name, email, amount, order #, etc.) transaction info and the following message:
===========================================
Credit or Debit card
On the next step you’ll be transferred to the site of processing company E-centru (www.e-centru.com).All products and services, displayed in the Internet-shop Alltunes.com, are accepted for payment via VISA/Mastercard by “TELETRANSINFO” SRL, address 69/1 Stefan cel Mare Blrd., Chisinau, Moldova, through a protected URL https://secure.e-centru.com. For security purposes, the card numbers are not kept by the company.
Please, be careful during typing information about your credit card. All typed data will be transferred using SSL connection 3.0 (to protect the data and prevent and guarantee its safety).”
============================================Enter your billing information and click “Pay Now”. Go to www.AllofMP3.com, login, click your “Balance” tab, scroll to the bottom, and you’ll see “Your Current Gift Certificates”. Click on the “status” link and send yourself the gift certificate by entering your email address.
You can either wait for the email or navigate back to the “gift certificate” (from the balance page)and copy & paste the URL to the gift certificate. You’ll then need to “activate” and “apply” the gift certificate to your account, which can be done from the “Balance” page.
Hurry though, ’cause you never know when this method will get blocked, too.
See you at AllTunes!
I haven’t tried it yet but it sounds pretty sweet if it works.
Michael Specht is my Productivity Buddy ™. If you don’t have a Productivity Buddy yet, I highly recommend it. It’s one of my better ideas.
Basically Michael and I have a regular 10am Monday morning telephone call where we make sure the other person has completed their GTD weekly review, then we talk over our productivity challenges, tips and tricks.
The topic of today’s call was around self-motivation. Each of us said we had a nice list of tasks to get through this week but the trick is actually DOING THEM and not letting other things get in the way. I’m always getting sucked into replying to email, handling tech support issues, responding to comments, accepting Skype calls, etc. All good stuff, fun stuff, all stuff which needs to happen to keep the business running, but all stuff which stops me from getting the “important not urgent” things on my list done.
So I’m wondering what tips and tricks you folks have for forcing yourself to get the hard, smelly jobs done. Do you have a particular carrot or stick approach? Do you reward yourself or deny yourself with something until the job is done? Got any good blogs or podcasts on the subject you recommend?
Technorati Tags:productivity, gtd
Believe or not kids, I can’t even comment on my own blog today. I’ve been blacklisted by Akismet!
I’m pleased (kind of) to announce that Molly Malone of Mollyzine.com has won the $50 Amazon voucher for my competition around promoting G’Day World on your blog. Congratulations to all of the other entrants…. Miriam. Next time I’ll have a rule that you can’t do what Molly did and promote the site by suggesting that there were photos of Britney Spears nude on my site. That’s just WRONG. Molly, email me for your prize details dude! I hope you use it to by a copy of “The God Delusion” buy Richard Dawkins. Actually, I might just send you a copy of that instead of the voucher, whaddya reckon?