Step 4: Reflect... and prioritize your work
Daily planning and weekly review are the two habits that keeps your GTD system running.
Daily planning: Start with your calendar, it should give you everything you need to do for each day. Once you've seen what you are going to do prioritize your tasks off your Next Action lists. Taking a couple things from that list everyday can help get things done as long lists are intimidating, short lists get things done. Finally, review any other lists as needed.
Weekly review continued in next point...
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This is based off of a article from Tyler Devries on how to get things done and what it can do for you. It is a long read so I do recommend stashing it so you can look back to it for reference if you forget.
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Reflect And Refine Your Calendar
- Reflect on the time during the day you had done what was the goal, and on what occasions were you distracted. This can be done using time-tracking apps or a simple journal.
- Refine your calendar by timeboxing your main objectives to map your daily a...
Pacing yourself
Trying to get work done uses the same principle as running: You have to pace yourself. Runners that sprint at the beginning will be tired out long before they reach the finish line.
One of the ways to pace your work is by maintaining weekly and daily to-do lists.
Prioritize Your Tasks
Although your to-do list might have 20 items on it, the reality is that you're going to get only a couple done per day (assuming that you're not writing down things like "get up, shower, make coffee, go to work...."
Make sure the most important tasks are at the very top of ...
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