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I recently did a high level goal assessment, starting at the Life view, then to five years, three years, one year and finally six months. Here I will describe the technique I used to integrate this process into the GTD.

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An essential skill for the tech entrepreneur is to be able to quickly produce prototypes. Sure, you can always outsource that, but if you like to dabble and coding is your idea of fun, you might want to create these prototypes yourself. While in many cases scripting languages and frameworks like Ruby on Rails and Symfony will get the job done, the following 19 tools allow an even more rapid turnaround, especially for more complex prototypes with many data sources.

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One problem I have found in using the GTD on a daily basis is deciding on the next action out of hundreds of important tasks. Enter the Pareto Principle. The following method should help you to get that huge list more manageable and allow for better focus on what is truly important.

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