Process - The Journey to Productivity and Effectiveness

Time tracking grants some great benefits, but you have to know why you're doing it. Justin discusses both the why and the how on this week's episode.

Links:

• Timing: the best automatic Mac time tracker for productive professionals and freelancers
• Toggl - Free Time Tracking Software
• ‎Timery for Toggl on the App Store
• Time Tracking Basics Module
• 019: Tracking Time for Work - Productivity Guild Community
• Pro Membership

Journaling is a great habit for the now, but journaling also can have big impacts on future you. Justin outlines three ways keeping a journal can improve life for your future self.

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• Discuss this Episode on the Community

Often the systems we want to help us find peace of mind only get us stressed out. In this week's episode, Justin discusses some mindsets on how productivity can lead us to peace of mind.

Links:

• Discuss this Episode on the Community

Justin wraps up the discussion from last week on lesson's he's learned working from home over the last seven years.

In part 1 of a 2 part series, Justin shares five lessons he's learned in the last seven years of working from home.

Links:

• Latest Telecommuting Statistics – Global Workplace Analytics

Justin continues to work through this major life transition, and along the way has been thinking a lot about all the open loops in his life. He boils open loops down to four categories.

Links:

• Zeigarnik effect - Wikipedia
• The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right: Atul Gawande: 9780312430009: Amazon.com: Books
• 014: Managing Open Loops - Productivity Guild Community

Justin gives an update on how he's liking the Bullet Journal after using it for a week.

Links:

• Bullet Journal
• Bullet Journal Method
• 013: The Journey - Bullet Journal First Impressions - Productivity Guild

Justin finds himself in a task management (and life) crisis, switches up the show format for the short term, and discusses his options for nuke and paving his system.

Links:

• Existential Task Management Crisis - Ask for Help - Productivity Guild Community
• Whims That Work: We Really Gotta Talk About Team Management
• Bullet Journal
• Kanban - Wikipedia
• 012: Project Management vs. Task Management - Productivity Guild Community

This week, Justin talks through the thought process of picking (or changing) a task manager.

Links:

• Autofocus System - Get Everything Done
• Bullet Journal
• 011: Picking a Task Manager - Productivity Guild Community

Justin discusses Cal Newport’s book Digital Minimalism and how it impacts personal productivity.

Links:

• Amazon.com: Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World (9780525536512): Cal Newport: Books
• Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World: Cal Newport: 9781455586691: Amazon.com: Books
• OmniFocus 3 Tour with Justin DiRose (2019) - YouTube
• 010: On Digital Minimalism - Productivity Guild Community