How to Feed Commitments into your Productivity System
When you first set up a personal productivity system, you’ll have put the three main elements of the system in place. Hopefully, you’ve also put the next few weeks of appointments in your calendar and gathered your current list of tasks. That’s substantial progress. Next, we need to look at how to add commitments to…
Setting Up a Productivity System
In previous posts we’ve looked at the benefits of a personal productivity system. We’ve also looked at the three main elements of that system. It’s now time to get your calendar and task manager working for you. Put aside some time to work purely on setting up your systems. I recommend a full morning, or…
Reference System for Personal Productivity
We’ve had a look at the requirements for a Calendar and for Task Management. Now we will have a look at the third element of a personal productivity system, the Reference System. The reference system can be thought of as a library. It fulfils two main functions. Firstly, it’s where you file your medium to…
To List or Not to List
To list or not to list, that is the question! Some people hate having a list of everything they must do. They find it depressing, or demotivating. Hate It A lengthy list is exceedingly difficult to manage. Difficult tasks end up forgotten, or ignored, at the bottom of the list. Everything that needs doing gets…
The Basics of Personal Productivity
When you decide to introduce, or fine tune, a personal productivity system remember why you want to use a system. I have some previous blogs on how to use a personal productivity and when personal productivity actually makes things worse. (It may be worth a quick read before delving into this post.) The Goal of…
When To Use Personal Productivity
In my last blog post I wrote about some principles of personal productivity. Sticking to principles, I’d like to share when to use personal productivity, and a bit about not using it all the time. Systems and Mindset Personal productivity is a system combined with a mindset. Mindset is important because the best systems in…