biggest obstacles to getting more productive<\/a> is getting started. Here’s a two minute guide to Getting Things Done (GTD).<\/p>\n1. Capture<\/strong>– Get all your to dos into inboxes. e.g. mail goes in one spot, verbal to dos go in your notebook etc.<\/p>\n2.
Process<\/strong>– Go through all your inboxes and empty out anything in your head onto a to do list. Here’s how to filter your list:<\/div>\n\n
\n- Delete- If you wont need it, get rid of it.<\/li>\n
- File- file away anything you’ll need later- but dont need now<\/li>\n
- Delegate- if someone else should be doing it- let them know. keep a to do item to follow up<\/li>\n
- Defer- Is this task not important enough to be done soon? Put it on a “someday\/maybe” list. Review the list weekly.<\/li>\n
- Do now- Is it a task that will take 2 minutes or less? Do it. That includes putting appointments in your calender, adding addresses to your contact list etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n
3.
Do<\/strong>– Do your to do list.<\/div>\n4.
Weekly review<\/strong>– Be on top of your to do list.<\/div>\nOf course there’s much more but if you start with this then you’re already ahead of most people.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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