June 2012
5 posts
The Daily Focus Area is a simple habit that helps...
(This is Part 4 in a series about My Productivity System.)
A Daily Focus Area is an area of your business or job that you focus on for the majority of the day. It’s a great way to harness more focus for critical parts of your work.
I first started having a daily focus back in college where I would set aside one day of the week to study for each of my classes. For example, I would set aside...
Get in the zone by learning to say no....
In order to be exceedingly productive, you need to have extended periods of focus. Some people call this being in the “zone”. It’s where you’re focused on the goal at hand and that’s all that matters. 2 hours… 4 hours… 6 hours… 8 hours… (some people can go 12+ hours in the zone) and you’re making tons of progress. The deeper you go in the zone, the more you seem to get done. This is...
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Introducing the Week Chart
Update: Thanks Lifehacker for picking up this post.
(This is Part 3 in a series about My Productivity System.)
In this post I’d like to share with you the Week Chart. It’s part of my recipe to keep focused and release incredible amounts of creativity throughout the week.
Here’s what the Week Chart looks like this:
The Week Chart’s main purpose is to show all your Desired Outcomes and Daily...
GTD sucks for creative work, part 2.
(This is Part 2 in a series about My Productivity System.)
*(I made some changes to this post on 6/7 after receiving some input from tivaski on Reddit.)
My last blog post went to #3 at Hacker News, got picked up by Lifehacker, and to top if off… David Allen (the creator of GTD) replied to the post in the comments:
Hmmm… the whole driver of GTD for me was to optimize creative space....
GTD sucks for creative work. Here's an...
(This is Part 1 in a series about My Productivity System.)
A friend asked me this question about what system I use to manage my todo list:
Your todo list is probably like mine, a million items long and constantly growing… Do you use a system or systems to manage your todo list? I’ve been loosely following GTD, and currently using a text document to handly my todo list. The text file is...
