My GTD setup is pretty simple, a Google calendar (which I use to track the daily activities of my project manager wife)and a Moleskine planner that I use to track my own plans for world domination. In my quest for productivity black belt status I think I have tried just about every web and software based productivity application, but I quickly found out that for me keeping the process very simple made it easier to actually integrate the habit of “productivity” into my everyday life…
In the end, though, I always come back to some sort of handwritten or typed master list of hundreds of things to do, with a few simple tweaks to identify what I need to do right now. I can definitely see how my time management/task management system has evolved from each of these thinkers. From David Allen, my little list of projects to remind me to always have at least one task per project on my daily list (this, after all, is the basis of how things get done) , and the use of verb-oriented “next actions”. From Neil Fiore and Julie Morgenstern, my use of “time maps” on days when I am feeling overwhelmed – a quick and dirty way to map out what I can really accomplish in the time available. From Stephen Covey, reminding myself to make sure that my projects make me a well-rounded human and that I don’t get too focused in one area of my life at the expense of another. And from Alan Lakein, the so simple it hurts idea that sometimes you just need a list of stuff to do in the order you need to do it in.
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