“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
This week I was able to complete all of the tasks on my to-do list as well as get some extra game design work done.
PRACTICE ROOM (TUTORIALS)
In this ‘room’ you are going to try Getting Things Done (GTD).
STEP 1: MAKE A LIST
- write a personal narrative draft
- do pre calc homework
- do reading assignment
- plan some new Project senior year levels
- do Christmas shopping
STEP 2: NOTICE WHAT YOU NOTICED
- write a personal narrative draft
- do pre calc homework
- do reading assignment
- plan some new Project senior year levels
- do Christmas shopping
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?
The walk that I took was very much needed because I was starting to get frustrated with my game design work. The walk was most beneficial because I was able to clear my head and find a solution to the issue that I was having.
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
WHAT I LEARNED and PROBLEMS I SOLVED
One thing that I learned this week largely had to do with time management. This largely had to do with the fact that some of my tasks took longer than expected so I had to allow extra time than I had planned to in order to get them done. A problem that I had to solve was that late into the week some more things that needed to get done poped up so I simply had to fit them into my plan for the week in order to solve that issue.