Week 9 – GTD – Getting Things Done – Part 1

“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

Last week i worked on missing work from math and language. i also did personal things like going outside and video games.

CLASSROOM (THEORY & ANALYSIS)

Image of David Allen at TED Talk
Screenshot from David Allen TED Talk

Reflection

When ever you are stressed or scared there is always a calm. Nothing ever comes easy you have to do it for hours. It doesn’t matter if your uncomfortable when you get good, it will be powerful. Focus on your work enough with giving yourself extensions. a lot of well known people didn’t have a week they had 24 hours. So get it done ans stop saying you will later.

PRACTICE ROOM (TUTORIALS)

STEP 1: MAKE A LIST

Screenshot of David Allen TED Talk
Screenshot of David Allen TED Talk
  • 1 hour
  • Write a listhere in this section of your blog,
  • math rsg 10-14
  • English story draft
  • english story essay
  • robotics tournament game
  • all missing blog post

STEP 2: NOTICE WHAT YOU NOTICED

Screenshot of David Allen TED Talk
Screenshot of David Allen TED Talk
  1. 30 minutes
  2. all missing blog post
  3. English story draft
  4. english story essay
  5. robotics tournament game
  6. rsg 10-14

STEP 3: SET A TIMER

https://giphy.com/gifs/time-clock-konczakowski-d3yxg15kJppJilnW
  1. Set a timer for your first task
    1. Decide how long you think it will take before you start
  2. Start working
  3. 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)

David Allen image
Oct. 2020 Lucidchart interview with David Allen
Image from FastCompany Magazine, https://www.fastcompany.com/3026827/the-brain-hacks-top-founders-use-to-get-the-job-done
Image from FastCompany Magazine, https://www.fastcompany.com/3026827/the-brain-hacks-top-founders-use-to-get-the-job-done
  • 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 helped me out it was cold and no one was out and then I started to think about the gtd and I realized how much it helped me in the all-nighter i just pulled.

OPTIONAL EXERCISE – Read the article and go for another walk 🙂

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“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…

WHAT I LEARNED and PROBLEMS I SOLVED

  • a problem that i had was cluttered with work so I didn’t do any but now I have turned in a lot of missing work for a lot of classes.

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