2/25/2023 0 Comments Strange folder called organizemeI guess I will talk to people more and look at the phone much less. I check Mail 2-3x per day, only when I am on my Mac. My solution? I have deleted Facebook, Mail and Twitter from my iPhone and my iPad. Perfect? By no means – but it seems to be working. How am I dealing with this? I acknowledge I am human and we struggle to control things and make things perfect. I used to check email on my iPad on the shitter in the morning, and 95% of the time it screws up my day and productivity.ģ. I do manage to keep my inbox empty, but checking email was “instant gratification” (there is an interesting study about this center in the brain), but it kept me away from “The Big Rocks” of the day (important tasks I had to do). I use to check email 65,434 times per day. Task switching (although great for creativity) is a focus killer.Ģ. ![]() When I read something, I would go to share and try to find something about it online and 3 hours later I am studying Buddhism in Nepal. Wasting time was one evil, but bigger evil was task-switching I did. I was spending a crazy amount of time on Facebook and Twitter. via Negativa uses another approach – let’s try to find things that we are doing, but are making us worse (in this case less productive). We always try to find things we are not doing to make us better (in this case more productive) and then we try to add those elements. I will also add simplifying as an element. via NegativaĪs said earlier “via Negativa” means getting rid of waste – or improving the system by removing waste and distractions. Now that I covered my apriori (using Bayesian terminology and trying to sound smart) I will cover my posteriori implementation. Here is another FREE article that summarize Lean/Toyota way (recommended reading). That’s why I used “in an attempt” in the title. The key with Lean/Agile is removing waste, but also action – don’t dwelling on creating a perfect system (like I usually tell, but never seem to follow up my own recommendations), but rather something usable that you can easily remodel as you go. It is small book, but quite repetitive – so I guess wiki is enough the get the key message.Īll in all, these books really good rounds up the Lean/Agile approach and complement each other. There is also free Wiki that outlines “Getting Results the Agile Way” book HERE. They are much shorter and get to the point immediately. Together with the mentioned books (The Organized Mind, Steven Covey, and David Allen books) I highly recommend checking to following ones as well. The second one was “via Positiva” – by adding things that organize me and setting up the applications and apps. First one one was using “via Negativa” (or limiting waste to use Lean/Toyota term) – removing things that distracted me. When I was working on something my thoughts have been jumping all around (which might not be that bad in creative persons and endeavors, but sometimes we need to shut it down – read more in The Organized Mind it is again a complementary thing). Having things floating in my head ( things I need to do) just killed my productivity and focus. The key takeaway from the book is to “externalize your memory”. ![]() The book that started my recent quest was The Organized Mind (which I highly recommend) that also introduced some practical solutions like Asana. But with the recent development of apps and Cloud solutions I had to re-visit my “system”. This article is the result of such an effort.Įverything started couple of years back by reading Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits and David Allen’s Getting Things Done (which I haven’t read, but have read other books/articles discussing it, like Zen-to-done). To be honest, it worked, but I didn’t quite like it. I have been using Evernote (with implemented GTD: Getting Things Done a-la solution The Secret Weapon, that uses smart tagging system) to plan my goals, projects, tasks and general references. Last couple of weeks (or months) I have been trying to read as much as I can on productivity and was trying to re-organize my flow and how I get things done and organized.
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