Deconstructing Getting Things Done: The Workflow
For this month, plus into June, I will be looking at how to deconstruct Getting Things Done to get it to the basics of the tools: how they work, when to use them, and the reasoning behind them. Today we will look at the second chapter, which lays out the workflow.
Simplifying “Mind Like Water” from Getting Things Done
"Mind like water" is a concept that is often tossed about when people are discussing the book Getting Things Done. Today we are going to look at what it really means, and put it in terms more of us can understand: zone.
Deconstructing Getting Things Done: Part 1
For this month, plus into June, I will be looking at how to deconstruct Getting Things Done to get it to the basics of the tools: how they work, when to use them, and the reasoning behind them. Today we will look at the first Chapter of the book.
How To Set Up Your DIY Planner
One of the advantages of making a DIY planner is that you can customize exactly what goes into it. Anything you need, in...anything you don't, out. Today we will look at some useful sections to help you set up your DIY Planner.
Bind It Up: DIY Planner Binding Options
Once you decide to make your own planning system, the binding becomes the first matter of choice. It dictates the size of your pages, as well as any special equipment you might need. Today we will look at the various binding options and how they work with different DIY options.
How To Manage A Kindle Library
As I shared last week, I believe that ebooks are a great simplifier. They allow me to read more wherever I am. Unfotunately, managing the electronic library can quickly get overwhelming. Unlike with paper books, you can't sort them into piles, and it can be difficult to find what you are looking for. This week I share the strategies I use to manage my books as well as my reading workflow.
Limit What You See To Avoid Distraction
I read a tweet today where someone said they went to read a text, and an hour later realized they were on Twitter. I thought to myself, what we need is a set of horse blinkers. Horse blinkers were a device used to keep horses from seeing things in their peripheral vision that could spook them. It forces the horse to look straight ahead, and not get distracted. There are a lot of times I wish I had a device like that...but I realized that there are a lot of electronic horse blinkers out there we can use. And by using them, you can limit what you see to avoid distraction.
Reducing Inputs: Piles
In this series of articles, we have looked at reducing inputs into your life with the hopes of making it easier to manage. In this article, I wanted to look at the areas that we hadn't covered already (paper, phone, email)...and realized that it all boiled down to Piles. Today we will look at how to handle this other material and get it to the point where it is not clogging our attention.
