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How to Use Flow to Make You More Productive
Join us in Miami, Chicago or Denver for our Accelerate Your Business event series kicking off in February. Discover solutions to optimize team performance, improve company productivity, and position your business for continued success. See dates and details » The average person has 70,000 thoughts each day, and if you don’t learn to organize them, they have the potential to wreak havoc on your productivity. When you succumb to the flurry of thoughts running through your head, your mind becomes disorganized, and the more you ruminate on intrusive thoughts, the more power you give them. Most of our thoughts are just that -- thoughts, not facts. In a recent study conducted at the National Institute on Aging, it was found that allowing your mind to be disorganized doesn’t just feel bad, it’s also actually bad for you. Related: 11 Things Ultra-Productive People Do Differently (Infographic) An organized mind, on the other hand, falls into a state of flow. Step 2: Take control of your emotions
Cutting through the clutter to get things done
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Redesigning My Productivity: The 1–2–3 To-Do List
Everybody loves lists. I’m obsessed with them. There was a lengthy period in my life when I felt like the longer my to-do list was, the more I got validated as a Multitasking, Stress-Loving, Badass Go-Getter. (I loved tweeting about how much of a busy workaholic I was. But as I kept that up, my to-do lists started to look more like WISH LISTS. No matter what I did, my lists just kept getting longer and longer, and more and more, tasks were getting carried over to the next day. And so, after weeks and weeks of feeling all over the place, I decided to rethink my to-do list and making them more doable — by making them SHORTER. Now, it may seem counterintuitive — how can you get more done, if your to-do list is shorter? My redesigned method is not so much about the length, as that’s a productivity technique that’s been harped on time and again, but the biggest change I implemented was making sure I started my day with two core principles: Focus and Intention. The 1–2–3 List 1 Major Mission 1. 2.
Getting Things Done - wat het is » lifehacking.nl
Getting Things Done van David Allen is het briljante stress- en timemanagement systeem van David Allen. Laat me een paar dingen noemen die maken dat Getting Things Done zo’n goed systeem is en wat het voor jou zou kunnen doen. CNN heeft een mooi artikel gepubliceerd over Getting Things Done (Engels). Je kunt het hier lezen. Getting Things Done: waar is het voor nodig? De meeste mensen die dit lezen, zijn op de één of andere manier kenniswerkers. Kenniswerk is relatief nieuw en vraagt om nieuwe methodes en manieren van denken. Ik had daar al aardig wat over geleerd in de dagelijkse praktijk. Maar Getting Things Done van David Allen gaf me nog een heleboel extra! Wat zijn de voordelen van Getting Things Done? Ik zal een paar voordelen noemen, dingen die ik heb gezien in mijn eigen leven en werk toen ik dit begon toe te passen. Het is flexibel. Alles bij elkaar ben ik zéér tevreden en erg enthousiast over Getting Things Done. Toen ben ik maar een Nederlandstalige training gaan bouwen.
A Bird in the Hand: Index Cards and the Handcraft of Creative Thinking | Publishing @ SFU
Haig Armen and I presented this paper (actually, we wrote a lot of index cards and stuck them on the wall in front of a projector!) at Congress 2013 in Victoria this past June. The talk was part of a session called Mediating Creative Practice that was put together by Frederik Lesage and Ben Woo. I don’t know why it took so long for me to put it online, but here it is. John W. Maxwell Publishing @ SFU Simon Fraser University Haig Armen Faculty of Design & Dynamic Media Emily Carr University of Art and Design Abstract The humble index card (and card index) has a rich history. This paper is about paper–and its role in the creative process. One of our favourite paper forms is the index card. Our study—into cards and card practices on the threshold of the digital revolution—is only in its embryonic stages. Card play (including note taking, sorting, shuffling, etc.) is one of a variety of high-level methods creative people use to organize thoughts and generate ideas. References Beck, K. & W.
The Bullet Journal Productivity Method Empowers Your Paper Notebook