“Day 092/366 – To Do List” by Great Beyond is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
Your toughest work is defining what your work is! – Peter Drucker
SUMMARY
Welcome back! This week’s production cycle is different, as there is only one room I focused on this week! Can you find it? Let’s find out!
CLASSROOM (THEORY & ANALYSIS)
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- In this ‘room’ you are going to take a survey that will help us next week
- Spend up to 3 minutes…
- …filling in the Getting Things Done Survey
PRACTICE ROOM (TUTORIALS)
In this ‘room’ you are going to try Getting Things Done (GTD).
STEP 1: MAKE A LIST
- Set a timer
- Spend up to 5 minutes
- Submit Katie Couric interview notes
- Record ASK questions for journalism
- Write TOK paper and submit that assignment
- Practice for guitar lessons
- Record Rhythm Assignment
- Finish ie + aller
- FINISH MI APPLICATION ASAP
- FINISH OREGON APPLICATION ASAP
- FINISH OREGON STATE APPLICATION ASAP
- FINISH MONTANA STATE APPLICATION ASAP
STEP 2: NOTICE WHAT YOU NOTICED
- Set a timer
- Spend up to 5 minutes
- Prioritize your list, here in this section of your blog
- Most important at the top
- Submit Katie Couric interview notes
- Finish ie + aller
- Record ASK questions for journalism
- Write TOK paper and submit that assignment
- Record Rhythm Assignment
- FINISH MI APPLICATION
- FINISH OREGON APPLICATION
- FINISH OREGON STATE APPLICATION
- FINISH MONTANA STATE APPLICATION
- Practice for guitar lessons
- Most important at the top
STEP 3: SET A TIMER
- Set a timer for your first task
- Decide how long you think it will take before you start
- Start working
- Repeat this process for 45 minutes for as many tasks as you can complete, then take a 15-minute break
- Get up and get a drink of water
- Get up and go for a walk
- Every 20 minute blink your eyes 20 times while looking at least 20 feet away
- This is good for your eyes
Start steps 1 through 3 again, repeat for your school day
OUTSIDE (PRODUCTIVITY & THE BRAIN)
- Set a timer
- Spend up to 20 minutes in this ‘room’
- Watch the first 30 seconds of this Oct. 2020 interview with David Allen
- Reflect on GTD and getting to the top of the colorful list above for a minute
- How can the GTD process help you tame the crazy-busy dragon of modern life?
- Then, go for a 15-minute walk, if it is safe to do so
- Write a few sentence reflection
OPTIONAL EXERCISE – Literally, read the article and go for another walk 🙂
“I coach C-suite executives and rising stars from the earliest startups to Fortune 100 companies. My passion is to help ambitious leaders achieve their full human potential.” – Read more about Katia…
- Set a timer
- Spend up to 15 minutes reading…
- FastCompany Magazine article about Katia Verresen’s techniques and GTD, https://www.fastcompany.com/3026827/the-brain-hacks-top-founders-use-to-get-the-job-done
- Then, go for another 15-minute walk, if it is safe to do so
WHAT I LEARNED and PROBLEMS I SOLVED
So what did I learn from all this? Well, I learned that my focus on being on-task helped, even in a week where the country threatens to tear itself apart. That issue which has been temporarily solved has plagued me for years.
WEEKLY ACTIVITY EVALUATION
It was fun. Till next time, Memento Mori.