you definitely need to “lose” time on learning to touch-type in order to save thousands of hours in the future. ![]() If your job involves much typing, transcribing, replying to e-mails, copywriting, creative writing etc. It saves so much time! You need to invest many hours to learn it but you will be blown away with the results. To my way of thinking every person considering themselves as “productive” should be able to touch-type. How has typing skill – or lack of it – impacted your business and personal life, or that of people that you’ve helped in the past? Typesy: Much of technology has evolved around the keyboard, and it’s still one of the most popular ways to interface with systems and society. My e-mail address as well as social media contacts are public and available on my contact page. I always encourage my readers to share their views and opinions in the comments below any blogpost/podcast episode etc. I appreciate constructive criticism and like to know whether my work helps other people. Of course! I am open for discussion and any suggestions. Can people ask you questions as well, or request specific topics for your podcasts and articles? Typesy: You welcome new listeners and viewers to your website and your regular Productive! Show podcast, where you talk about a range of issues related to technology and productivity (and the latest Apple offerings). First from one-mans-shop, through only being 3 people to currently 20+ folks in the team, Nozbe keeps evolving and I keep growing as an entrepreneur. So I wrote a web app which only some time later turned out to be a life-saver for other people too Then Nozbe started to be my side project to finally become a core business in 2007. ![]() As a geek, I wanted to have a nice tool to implement GTD but couldn’t really find any suitable software on the market. I was working as a freelance consultant at that time and I had many various clients and projects. Nozbe has, indeed, evolved from my own personal time and tasks management tool that was a product of my need and of my interest in GTD that I discovered at certain moment. They proved to me that you can switch jobs, try, fail, learn something new, fail again, succeed, change again… and that it’s all very exciting and rewarding. And it is still a learning curve and I love every minute of it. Well… I failed at last three times to finally hit it with Nozbe. But I decided to try myself and build my own startup. I had a quite nice resume – two business college degrees, three foreign languages spoken fluently – they suggested I could get a really good job in a prestigious international company. When I graduated from college many people were questioning my choice of going on my own. I guess I was raised to run a business – and these are my entrepreneurial parents who are to blame (You can read more about them in a blogpost I wrote a few years ago – ). I couldn’t really imagine myself in any other place. I’ve always wanted to be an entrepreneur. Typesy: Did you ever have the specific goal of running your own company, or did your Nozbe venture simply evolve over time, from your own personal tool to one that people around the world are using to help manage their productivity? I think they will let us go outside the box and inspire us while planning and looking for solutions. ![]() In the end though, I realized that there is no inconsistency between having stretch goals and working step by step with “small wins” to get them done. I am a great advocate of a small steps method so I was a little bit at crossroads with these bold goals I set to myself and the whole Nozbe team. Goals like these might be really discouraging and cause frustration – I experienced that not so long ago while planning new Nozbe marketing strategy for the end of this year and the entire 2016. This is an ambitious vision rather than a goal and it requires you to go out of your comfort zone and “stretch” your capabilities beyond the usual performance. This is a goal that you can’t achieve by using your regular procedures, planning habits and tools. Typesy: One of your recent blog posts mentions “stretch goals.” What is a stretch goal? In a recent interview, we talked to Michael about productivity tips, what it’s like to run a startup business, and how you can use technology to make the most out of every day. Introduction : If you can’t find the tool you need, then design and produce it yourself! At least, that’s what Michael Sliwinski did with his popular productivity management system called Nozbe.
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