David Forrester

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How Fitbod Helped Me Reach My Strength Goals

Introduction Fitbod is a fitness app that uses a personalised algorithm to generate workout plans. The app takes into account your fitness goals, equipment, and fitness level when generating workouts. Fitbod also includes a variety of features to help you track your progress and stay motivated. I use Fitbod for

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The Best Apple Watch Faces for Every Time of Day

Introduction Do you find yourself constantly switching between different watch faces on your Apple Watch? If so, you're not alone. Many Apple Watch users find that they need different watch faces for different times of the day or different activities. In this blog post, I'll show you how to set

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How To Use Notion To Track Your Wardrobe

Introduction As a self-proclaimed productivity guru, I am drawn towards having a structure in my life and I find technology to be a great tool for visualising various aspects. Over the last decade, I have incorporated databases into every aspect of my life, be it personal or professional. However, when

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How to Structure Your Finances - Couples

Welcome to my next edition in the financial section of the blog, where we delve into the world of household finances and share a simple yet effective solution to help couples manage their expenses. This excel model is based on the post "How I Structure My Finances" and builds on

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How to use Apple Reminders to track your house chores

The Apple Reminders app is a great tool for managing household chores. It's easy to use and allows for sharing with others.

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Time Tracking Categories of Life

As someone who tracks nearly everything they do in a calendar, I thought I would go one step further and track everything for a week.

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How To Spend Your Splurge Account

Creating a list of the items you are planning to buy or in other words a 'Wishlist', can help you prioritise your purchases.

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My Digital Filing Cabinet

While it can seem like a tedious process, capturing all you letters, documents and receipts in a digital filing system can save you time and panic when you need to find that one important item from X months ago.

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Why I Have 5 Todo Lists

... and maybe why I should look to consolidate. Every once in a while, I get excited by an announcement or article describing a new system or approach and I drop everything and try to move my entire process over. Below is the current state of my Todo systems and if

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How To Ensure You Stretch Everyday

With sitting down all day at work I find that my legs and back become very inflexible. Leaving these symptoms unchecked results in a very inflexible lower body for myself and I can only imagine it getting worse the older I get.

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My Eight WFH Essentials

Over the past few years and especially during COVID I have collected and tested a range of working from home devices and furniture. While some of these items are expensive, I believe if you have the money the investment is worth it.

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How To Automate Your Study Schedule

If you are a student at university or in the same boat as me at work, try using this approach and template to increase the efficiency of your study and increase your chances of getting the grade you are working towards.

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My Secret For Building Better Habits

My favorite app for setting and tracking my habits.

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How To Take Consulting Notes In Notion

This template uses Notions database feature which allows for the consolidation of notes in a systematic way.

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How I Structure My Finances

If we only take away one thing from this post it is to move away from banks that are charging you fees to hold your money.

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Goal Tracking

Writing down yearly goals allows you to keep track of them and identify any issues you may encounter with achieving them early.

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Scheduled Review

The schedule reviews are a collection of dedicated time set aside to ensure you are staying on top of your calendar, tasks and goals.

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Habits

Tracking habits can become an important part in achieving your long term goals, as the little things you do day to day can have a large impact over the long term.

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To-Do Lists

To do lists work as the best way to remind yourself to do something at another date or time.

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Calendars

The calendar plays an important role in the productivity toolbox. It's primary purpose is to block out time for defined, reoccurring tasks that have clear start and end times.

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Roam Research

Traditional note taking tools use a hierarchy structure to organise notes, however, roam uses bi-directional linking which allows for previously unknown associations to be made.

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A Day In The Life - Working From Home

Hey, welcome to a day in the life of working from home. Here are some ways I used the apps and tools from previous and future posts.

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The Streaks workout app

The streaks workout app is a great habit building platform for achieving your fitness goals.

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The Categories of Life

Coming up with goals at the start of the year can be difficult. Deciding how to colour code your calendar events can be difficult.