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Can Limiting Choices Help You Get More Done?
This is Week 28 of a Year of Living Productively This week I tested whether limiting my choices could help me get more done. I simplified my daily routine and rewarded myself with an A for every day I accomplished 90% of it. Scroll to the bottom of last week's post...
Can an Accountability Chart Help You Get More Done?
This is Week 27 of a Year of Living Productively This week I tested the Accountability Chart from Sparring Mind. I broke my day up into 90-minute work periods followed by 15-minute breaks and then wrote down what I accomplished during each 90-minute block. Scroll to...
Can a Focus & Relief List Help You Get More Done?
This is Week 26 of a Year of Living Productively This week I tested Deven's modification of one of Mark Forster's Autofocus approaches that I called Focus & Relief. I worked from two lists--a Focus list with urgent and deadlined tasks and a Relief list for...
Can Make it Happen in 10 Minutes Help You Get More Done?
Are these emails ending up in your Promotions folder on Gmail? Here's how to get them out. This is Week 25 of a Year of Living Productively This week I tested Make it Happen in Ten Minutes a Day {affiliate link}. I chose a create task and a conquer task for the week...
Can a Productivity Ritual Help You Get More Done?
Are these emails ending up in your Promotions folder on Gmail? Here's how to get them out. I just discovered that this post was delivered as scheduled. My sincere apologies! This is Week 24 of a Year of Living Productively This week I tested whether a productivity...
Can Beat the Week Help You Get More Done?
This is Week 23 of a Year of Living Productively This week I tested whether attempting to get a week's worth of work done by Thursday (what I called Beat the Week) would help me get more done. 99u calls it "reward efficiency." The motivation was to have time at the...
Can a Morning Ritual Help You Get More Done?
This is Week 22 of a Year of Living Productively This week I tested whether a morning ritual could help me get more done using Curt Mercadante's article as inspiration. I already have a morning ritual in place of exercising first thing in the morning followed by a...
Can Time Blocking Help You Get More Done?
This is Week 21 of a Year of Living Productively This week I tested time blocking, specifically as recommended by The 12 Week Year: Get More Done in 12 Weeks than Others Do in 12 Months {affiliate link}. I scheduled a 3-hour Strategic block, a 3-hour Breakout block,...
Can David Allen’s Getting Things Done Really Help You Get More Done?
This is Week 20 of a Year of Living Productively This week I tested Getting Things Done. {affiliate link} I put all my tasks into a trusted system and labeled them according to priority, context, time, and energy required. Many of them were associated with a project...
Can Mark Forster’s Ultimate Time Management System Help You Get More Done?
This is Week 19 of a Year of Living Productively This week I tested Mark Forster's Ultimate Time Management System. I used a paper list of things I wanted to accomplish in the next two weeks. I worked the old list in any way I wanted, but had to continue through the...
Can A Daily/Weekly/Monthly To Do List Help You Get More Done?
This is Week 18 of a Year of Living Productively This week I tested Agota Bialobzeskyte's Daily/Weekly/Monthly To-Do List. I kept a paper list for weekly and monthly tasks and used IQtell to manage my daily tasks. Scroll to the end of last week's post for more...
Can Another Simple and Effective Method Help You Get More Done?
This is Week 17 of a Year of Living Productively This week I tested Another Simple and Effective Method of Mark Forster's. I kept a paper task list, crossed off a task all the way across the page, and then did a task from each of the newly created sections of the list...