Organization & Productivity. GTD Productivity & Creativity. Structure Your Schedule – Be More Creative. For those living a creative life, the absence of an externally-imposed schedule is both a joy and a delight.
How marvelous to know we have the entire day (or much of it) to frolic among our creative pursuits! Yet at the end of the week, should we survey our accomplishments, we may find them lacking. (“How could it be another month gone already?! I haven’t even drafted that chapter.”) While creative minds balk against restrictions of any kind, the truth is that some kind of structure or routine gives us the framework within which to be much more creative. How to Make Your To-Do List Doable. 7 Not So Obvious Habits To Maximize Your Productivity. I was a big fan of productivity, and, in some respects, I still am.
I’ve been a very early adopter of GTD, and, for years, I did my weekly reviews with the discipline of a zen monk. But, eventually, I hit a roadblock. GTD is about getting things “done”, but in life we have much more to experience than “doing”. We feel. We dream. So, I confess I fell out from the GTD wagon. But enough with all this shameless self-promotion intro. So, instead of doing a presentation of the Assess – Decide – Do framework, I chose to isolate only 7 simple tips for today’s post. As a matter of fact, they’re even organized as such. 1. I firmly believe that the art of ignorance should be taught in schools. Especially on Mondays, when all the previous week unprocessed stuff seems to crash on us, try to apply this. Slash out Twitter, Facebook, email. 7 Ways to Grow the Action Habit.
People at the top of every profession share one quality — they get things done.
This ability supercedes intelligence, talent, and connections in determining the size of your salary and the speed of your advancement. Despite the simplicity of this concept there is a perpetual shortage of people who excel at getting results. The action habit — the habit of putting ideas into action now — is essential to getting things done. Here are 7 ways you can grow the action habit: 1. Don’t wait until conditions are perfect – If you’re waiting to start until conditions are perfect, you probably never will. 2.
The Experts' Guide to Doing Things Faster: 100 Ways to Make Life More Efficient (9780307342096): Samantha Ettus. Uberman's sleep schedule. Background The Uberman sleep schedule is a method of organizing your sleeping time to maximize your REM sleep and minimize your non-REM sleep.
The goal of the sleep cycle is that you are actively in REM sleep within a couple of minutes of falling asleep and remain in that state until you awaken. I originally read about the schedule on everything2. In essence, someone utilizing the Uberman sleep schedule is actively modifying their sleeping habits so that they can immediately jump from waking to a few minutes worth of stage 1 sleep straight to stage 5 REM sleep, as described in this discussion of sleep stages.
Doing Things Faster. Sometimes we spend a lot of time doing some boring work.
In most cases this kind of work can be done much quicker than we actually spend time on it. There are a lot of reasons why behave like this. In many cases we are victims of procrastination - the most famous thief of time. Sometimes we simply do not know how to do something fast (e.g typing text without looking at the keyboard), sometimes we do fall into the perfectionism problem. And finally, how to do things faster? Firstly, you have to define the reason why you doing something slowly. 7 Habits of Highly Ineffective People. Action plan techniques. When writing an action plan to achieve a particular goal or outcome, you can get much help from the following steps.
Clarify your goal. Can you get a visual picture of the expected outcome? How can you see if you have reached your destination? What does make your goal measurable? What constraints do you have, like the limits on time, money, or other resources. Get Organized Now! Time management skills and techniques main page Time management lessons with an in-depth discussion of the important time management skills, techniques, and activities. Personal time management and goal setting guide main page Practical information and advice on various personal time management and goal setting topics. Useful Life Skills for Goal Setting. Goal setting is one of many life skills that require practice and a little effort to get started.
There are some other useful skills that complement your newly found goal setting skills, including: Time Management - how to beat the clock and manage procrastination, as well as other time management tips. Problem Solving and Decision Making - how to take information and sort it into something useful for making decisions and solving problems. Planning and Organisation - how to get organised and set priorities (great for better time management too!).
Attitude and Motivation – success is 10% skill and 90% attitude! And check out Mind Tools Life Skills - this site has lots of useful information (a lot of it is FREE) on personal management skills such as time and stress management, problem solving, communication skills, etc. Positive Thinking 4U - Personal Development involves many different aspects – find out how you can improve your life in many different areas.