Here we are…half way through the year. How did that happen? I have decided to do a mid-year review of my goals and an evaluation of my productivity methods. I have added a few things to my life which make it essential that I make productivity a priority.
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I’ve mentioned before that The Productive Woman is one of my favorite podcasts. She recently did a podcast on this topic:
I highly recommend listening to this podcast if you are interested in doing your own review.
One thing I know for sure, the planner I bought for this year isn’t working for me. There isn’t anything wrong with the planner itself. Somehow, though, I find myself having not even looked at it for several weeks. I’m not ready to say it’s a failure just yet. Perhaps I just need a different way of using it. That’s something I’m going to be looking at this weekend.
I’m also going to be looking at a couple of digital task managers. Sometime last year I read (or rather, listened to the audio version of) Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen.
I think I may be ready to seriously consider the GTD (Getting Things Done) method. At first it sounded a little more complicated than I need but since I now have a more complicated life, it’s worth trying. A friend of mine who is a GTD aficionado, wants to form a local GTD user group. Now we just need to find a few others to join us. I’m also trying to talk him into writing a guest post on the topic for Life With Dee.
So, if I determine that GTD is something I want to try I will need to decide how to implement it. Paper? OmniFocus? Nozbe?
I’m also rather intrigued by Bullet journals.
I’d love to hear your thoughts. Do you use a task manager? If so, which one. Are you a paper or digital type? Let’s talk about this in the comments. I’m open to all suggestions.
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Recommended Online Courses (I’ve purchased all three of these personally.)
Morning and evening routines are essential for high productivity. Here are two online courses I highly recommend to help in developing these routines:
If you need help setting goals, I recommend this course:
I hope you find a way of staying organized that works for you.
Thank you. I’m sure it will be a work in progress. 🙂
I’m a paper person but I do use some digital tools – Wunderlist, Evernote, Productive, and Spendr to name a few. Right now I’m struggling with the best paper system. I’ve used bullet journals but right now I’m using a spiral-bound notebook that I divide into sections. Right now the sections that I’m using are: call/text/internet; do; shop/go; cook; and week ahead. I also journal. I’d like to simplify things but I also think I can never find the perfect system because I get bored!
I’m a paper person, too. And yet my current system isn’t sufficient for all I have to do. I mean, I generally get the essentials done but my brain is overloaded with things I think I should do or want to do but just don’t know when I’ll get to them. That’s why I think the GTD system might be good for me.