Create a plan before you wonder where your time went
You don’t just need a budget for your income and expenses. You need a temporal budget that plans how you’re going to spend the most precious resource you have.
Your brain doesn’t have to keep every thought in RAM
You have a system in place for handling the information in your life. Do you trust it? Or do you keep thinking thoughts so you don’t lose them?
Without a plan, you’re just busy
The key to productivity is to have a plan. Whatever timeframe you’re looking at, it’s the only way to make reliable progress towards your destination.
The further you get behind, the more you have to work to get ahead
Productivity is about doing less of what you have to do so you can do more of what you love. Here are five ways our choices can get in the way of that, creating more “debts” we need to pay off first.
Five Proven Strategies to Start the Week on the Right Foot
The secret to a productive Monday begins on Friday. Don’t end the week until you have a plan for how to start the next one.
Recording what you did is as valuable as planning what you’ll do
Your task list and calendar are an important part of your digital planning system. Keeping a log of what you actually do provides valuable feedback to help you get better at getting things done.
Not every play needs to result in a touchdown, or even a first down
You don’t have to drive the entire length of the field in a single shot to reach your goals. Just keep moving the chains.
Track Commitments, Make Progress, and Be More Relaxed
Weekly review and planning will help you keep your commitments, achieve your goals, and be more relaxed along the way.
Why is as important as what, when, and where
Roles are a powerful planning tool to make sure your life is heading the direction you want. Here’s how to use Roles in OmniFocus.
What goes in first shows what’s important to you
Any space you leave open in your schedule will naturally and automatically fill with gravel. The key to being productive is to fill your bucket with big rocks before it fills up with gravel.
