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Creating a productive schedule
Avoiding procrastination
Prioritizing tasks effectively
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-Urgent: Time wasters.
We should always try to shorten the time of the 1st quadrant and use more time in the 2nd quadrant activities.
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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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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" fo...
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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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"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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The most important quadrant
Quadrant 1 (the urgent/important tasks) you will always automatically take care off. Quadrants 3 & 4 should be eliminated to a great extent.
Quadrant 2 (not urgent but important) is what will change your life over time. At least 10% of your day needs to be devoted to this important but n...
2. The Eisenhower Matrix / The Eisenhower box
Once you have your goals written in a SMART way, you should break them down into concrete and actionable tasks.
Then the tasks need to be prioritized.
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- Urgent + Important (Do first)
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#7 Sharpen the Saw
Taking care of your health beforehand is always better than going to the doctor after you feel ill.
This habit is focused on continuous growth and improvement and embodies all the other habits.
You need to focus on Quadrant 2 (Important & ...
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