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Creating a productive schedule
Avoiding procrastination
Prioritizing tasks effectively
Evaluating Daily Work
The threefold model for evaluating daily work -
- Defining Your work
- Doing predefined work
- Doing work as it showing up
The first two are the basics of GTD but "sometimes things come up that just can't wait" for those we just need to use our experience to take that.
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#4 Reflect
... and prioritize your work.
- Daily Review: Prioritise your tasks from the next action list and put it in your calendar. Use reference and other lists as needed.
- Weekly Review: First empty your inbox. Then review your calendar ...
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#2 Clarify
... what needs to be done.
Now question the ideas/ Information -- Is it actionable?
If Yes -
Can it be done in 2 minutes or less? - yes - just do it now! If No - Put it in Next Action List.
If No -
- Discard it.
- Keep it as...
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"It does not take much strength to do things but it requires a great of strength to decide what to do."
ELBERT HUBBARD
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"Capability and willingness to instantly make a checklist, accessible and used when needed, is a core component of high-performance self-management."
DAVID ALLEN
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#3 Organise
... information so that you can find it later.
- Next Action List: Two ways - Delegate it (someone may be better for this task) or Defer it (Do it later).
- Project List: For all similar types of tasks create a project list.
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Moving to Quadrant - II
From '7 habits of Highly effective people' -
- Important & Urgent- Crisis Management
- Important & Non-urgent - High leverage activities.
- Not-Important & Urgent: Interuptions
- Not-Important & Not-Urg...
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"Ultimately and always you must trust your intuition. There are many things you can do, however, that can enhance that trust."
DAVID ALLEN
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#5 Engage
... in the right activity.
Engage in the work keeping the following things in mind -
- Context: Is that task is capable of doing in this environment?
- Time availability: Is there enough time to do this task?
- ...
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"The reason most organizing systems haven't work for most people is that they haven't yet transformed all the stuff they're trying to organize. As long as it's stuff it's not controllable"
DAVID ALLEN
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#1 Capture
... everything that has your attention.
For this, you can use
- Paper-tray: Where you will keep all the new information documents (hard copy).
- Personal NoteBook: This is for your own personal ideas which you can write it do...
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