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How to Optimize Your To-Do List to Be More Efficient. Introduction to the Zettelkasten Method. English Original • Chinese Translation Why are you reading this introduction?

Introduction to the Zettelkasten Method

The chances are that you either have an immediate need to solve the riddle of knowledge work, feel overwhelmed by your master’s thesis, try to level up your blog, want to write a book because it’s cool, try to get on top as a consultant, excel at research, or something like that. But the Zettelkasten Method is more than just a tool to finish some work or project. It is a holistic method on how to deal with knowledge in your life. The Zettelkasten Method is an amplifier of your endeavors in the realm of knowledge work. It is like swimming. The Zettelkasten Method needs some practice. This introduction is meant to guide your first steps towards excellence. Getting Things Done: the GTD method explained in 5 steps - IONOS. No help with prioritizing: Priorities have a subordinate role in Getting Things Done.

Getting Things Done: the GTD method explained in 5 steps - IONOS

The system primarily ensures that you don’t forget anything and that you use your free time efficiently. The High five Notebook. Criticalmargins. To keep everything simple, I use a standard notebook. I used to like the composition notebooks you can buy at any department store but now I prefer a sturdier A5-sized notebook (though recently I’ve also used a traveler’s notebook, which I like). No matter the notebook, I start it with at least two pages set aside at the front for a table of contents and one page at the back for an index. Then I number each page as I go. Where Is It Located? This is simple enough. Productivity 101: A Primer To The Getting Things Done (GTD) Philosophy. Free CBT Worksheets For Therapists To Share. CBT Worksheets For Therapy & Self-Help PDF. Bullet Journal Updated Overview. How to Bullet Journal: The Absolute Ultimate Guide — The Lazy Genius Collective.

We all have different brains that see the world in different ways.

How to Bullet Journal: The Absolute Ultimate Guide — The Lazy Genius Collective

Some of you see words as colors, others see the months in a circle, and I see just about everything as linear as it can be. That means we all need different perspectives on our calendars. I like for my Monthly Log to be a list of dates rather a traditional calendar with squares; I tried both and totally prefer the list. But I still like to see the year at a glance, especially when holidays and birthdays fall. So in the front of my Bullet Journal is a simple calendar with just that - holidays and birthdays.

WTF Is A Bullet Journal And Why Should You Start One? An Explainer. PERMA Model - Career Development from MindTools. Bringing Well-Being and Happiness to Your Life Put yourself on the road to happiness. © iStockphoto/silberkorn We all want to be happy.

PERMA Model - Career Development from MindTools

When we're happy, we're productive, we're good at building meaningful relationships with those around us, and... we feel great! However, happiness is a notoriously difficult thing to pin down, and by focusing on it too intensely, we can end up feeling unfulfilled. In this article we'll look at the PERMA Model. About the Model The PERMA Model was developed by respected positive psychologist, Martin Seligman, and was widely published in his influential 2011 book, "Flourish. " "PERMA" stands for the five essential elements that should be in place for us to experience lasting well-being. 1.

For us to experience well-being, we need positive emotion in our lives. 2. When we're truly engaged in a situation, task, or project, we experience a state of flow : time seems to stop, we lose our sense of self, and we concentrate intensely on the present. 3. 4. 5. Engagement. How to Do What You Love. January 2006 To do something well you have to like it.

How to Do What You Love

That idea is not exactly novel. Five Ways to Become Happier Today. Transcript Question: What can people do each day to be happier?

Five Ways to Become Happier Today

Tal Ben-Shahar: The first thing to do to become happier, paradoxically, is to accept painful emotions, to accept them as a part of being alive. You know, there are two kinds of people who don't experience painful emotions such as anxiety or disappointment, sadness, envy; two kinds of people who don't experience these painful emotions. They are the psychopaths and the dead. So if we experience painful emotions at time, it's actually a good sign. How to Improve Your Memory - Introduction to Method of Loci. A Simple Approach To Fixing Your Crappy Self-Esteem. How Seinfeld’s Productivity Secret Fixed My Procrastination Problem. I’ve long been overwhelmed by an unwieldy list of goals that would sit, unaccomplished, in a long-term to-do list year after year.

How Seinfeld’s Productivity Secret Fixed My Procrastination Problem

Then I came across a simple trick that solved my chronic problem. As gimmicky as it may sound, I’m now accomplishing everything I’d been putting off in just an hour a day. Here’s how you can, too. I exercise every day. My apartment is always neat and tidy. It’s more commonly known as “Don’t Break the Chain,” and the concept is simple: spend a fixed amount of time doing a desired activity every day and, when you do, cross off that day on a calendar. That said, the concept wasn’t perfect for me and it didn’t account for things like sick days and vacations.

Then, for no readily apparent reason, “Don’t Break the Chain” started inadvertently appearing in web searches and email messages. I decided to start with three goals to try it out, and so I put three calendars on the wall for the month of December. Figure out your goals. Step One: Choose Your Goals. Alltop - Top Lifehacks News. MSK 2.0. Getting started with "Getting Things Done". This article was originally posted during the first week of 43 Folders' existence, and, pound for pound, it remains our most popular page on the site.

Getting started with "Getting Things Done"

Please be sure to also visit related pages, browse our GTD topic area, plus, of course you can search on GTD across our family of sites. I’ll be talking a lot here in coming weeks about Getting Things Done, a book by David Allen whose apt subtitle is “The Art of Stress-Free Productivity.” You’ve probably heard about it around the Global Interweb or have been buttonholed by somebody in your office who swears by GTD. (It probably takes a backseat only to the Atkins Diet in terms of the number of enthusiastic evangelists: sorry about that.) Like I did the other day with Quicksilver, I wanted to provide a gentle, geek-centric introduction to Getting Things Done, so that you can think about whether it might be right for you.

The Problem with “stuff” Stuff is bouncing around in our heads and causing untold stress and anxiety. How to Make Your To-Do List Doable. Time, Attention, and Creative Work.