Jeffrey C. Long

I’ve put a lot of time into trying to organize my world and read a lot about personal productivity. Always with the mindset that I am not accomplishing all I could, and am dropping balls. But this quote from Howard Thurman on the Inward/Outward site says that there is something else to be gained from […]

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I’ve been mulling over the amount of information that I archive. It seems a little obsessive, even self-absorbed. My poor children are going to have to cope with it all when I am gone. I have five 3″ binders filled with my writings from about 5-10 years ago. And now with […]

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Amendment 2005/01/04 I discovered that there is a limit to the number of characters that iCal can hold in the notes section. So this isn’t ideal. I’ll have to come up with a different way. Does anyone know how to create a hyperlink to a file that is on the computer, rather […]

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I’m sure there are many of you like myself who have stacks and stacks of books spread out between office and home. This has always been a problem for me, even when I wasn’t ministering. I get an idea in my head, think about a book to pull off the shelf or buy […]

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I’ve had email since before I had internet. We had a Juno account back in my primitive Compaq days. Since that time I believe that I’ve had at least 15 different email accounts, each with varying degrees of clutter. One of the things that’s helped keep my ministry fresh has been email […]

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Today, I am at Moxie Java in Twin Falls, studying and writing. As I arrived, I hung my leather coat on the back of a chair, and promptly worried that I would forget it. It’s not horribly cold outside, so I could feasibly walk out, get into my car, and never remember that […]

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I wrote awhile back about discovering cargo pants as a tool for carrying my multitudinous gadgets and stuff. I generally have a Pocket PC, iPod, cell phone and some form of wallet with me. I was also carrying a pocket notebook around with me called a Moleskine so that I could take pen […]

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I am a ““Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity” (David Allen)” hacker. GTD is a complete system for managing productivity. As a hacker, I have implemented little pieces of it one at a time, rather then try to implement the whole system all at once. I first discovered the book […]

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With all the hoopla over the hipster PDA and moleskine, you’d think the PocketPC and Palm passe. Not at all says G-Boy. Check out the article. Personally, a moleskine would never be able to hold the daily office from universalis. And I agree with point #1. You can’t padlock a […]

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Top 100 Speeches In mp3 or Real Audio format. First 5: “I have a dream,” JFK’s Inaugural Address, FDR’s Inaugural address and Pearl Harbor address to the nation, and Barbara Charlie Jordan’s 1976 Democratic National Convenation Keynote Address.

Presentation Excellence Powerpoint presentation from Tom Peters on giving great presentations. “My brother-in-law, a senior ExxonMobil […]

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