Process - The Journey to Productivity and Effectiveness

Common productivity advice often states, "Throw everything you can into one tool to rule them all!" In practice, that doesn't work well. This week, Justin shares how it's better to build a system of many tools to offer greater flexibility and strength while on your productivity journey.

Process Episode 50 GIVEAWAY!

Justin's list has been making him feel like he has to get everything done, but that's not the healthiest thing. He's also continuing to iterate on his use of OmniFocus and other tools, and considering a move to Linux.

Gain Clarity by Planning in Notion

When there's much to do on your list, it's hard to know when you've succeeded. And if the list isn't done, it can feel like you're falling behind. One tip can help you get above the chaos: choosing a daily outcome. This week we explain the concept and outline some practical ways you can better frame the success of your day.

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• Discuss this Episode on the Community
• Make Time Book
• Getting Results the Agile Way
• 009: The Most Important Tasks
• Eat That Frog

Justin discovers a hole in his productivity system and returns to a familiar software to fill it, but with a new approach.

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• Episode 50 GIVEAWAY
• Article: An OmniFocus Workflow for 2020
• 013: Bullet Journal First Impressions
• Justin's Series on Using Todoist
• Discuss this Episode on the Community
• Become a Patron!

The basic building blocks of productivity systems aren't a calendar, task manager, and reference system as you might think. Those are tools to manage the building blocks.

Today, we break down these basic blocks and ways you might choose to manage them.

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• Discuss this Episode on the Community
• 009: The Most Important Tasks
• 021: Startup and Shutdown Routines
• 044: Why New Year's Resolutions Don't Work

You've probably done the dance with New Year's Resolutions and failed. Why does that happen? And what can you do instead. Justin discusses some alternatives in this week's episode.

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• Join the Community!
• The 12 Week Year
• Cortex #95: 2020 Yearly Themes
• 035: Do Goals Really Work?
• Atomic Habits

Your values drive every decision you make. Defining them helps you be more intentional on making decisions that line up with your values.

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• Discuss this Episode on the Community (includes transcript)

An annual review is a great time to get a big-picture view of your life and the upcoming year. In this episode, Justin walks you through his process of conducting an annual review.

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• Effective Remote Work YouTube
• Productivityist
• Mike Schmitz's Personal Retreat Course
• Cortex
• The Theme System
• Video Version

It's better to fill our days with space to process than fill space with things to process.

When your system needs catching up, do you fix the system or do the work?