Process - The Journey to Productivity and Effectiveness

Guild member @BrianP has a question we dive into this week: how do you best pick your daily most important tasks?

Links:

• Most Important Tasks (MITs) - The Personal MBA
• How to be More Productive by Using the “Eisenhower Box”
• 009: The Most Important Tasks - Productivity Guild Community

Justin discusses how we productivity enthusiasts (including himself) can verge on the line of being over-productive and some strategies to avoid it.

Links:

• Pareto principle - Wikipedia
• Amazon.com: Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World (9780525536512): Cal Newport: Books
• Process Episode 2: What is Productivity?

Justin gives up on Scrum for OmniFocus, abandons his pursuit of a more full reference system, and gives an update on his struggles with margin.

Links:

• Tools They Use Episode 36: Common Productivity Dilemmas, Managing Tasks and Reference Materials with Justin DiRose
• OmniFocus 3 Tour with Justin DiRose (2019) - YouTube
• Process Episode 3: Check-In #1
• Channels of Work | Using OmniFocus
• Hyperfocus: How to Be More Productive in a World of Distraction: Chris Bailey: 9780525522232: Amazon.com: Books
• Hyperfocus: How to Be More Productive in a World of Distraction: Chris Bailey: 9780525522232: Amazon.com: Books

Justin discusses four main strategies to consider when approaching building a productivity system in the corporate world.

Links:

• AutoHotkey
• Capture OmniFocus Tasks on Windows with AutoHotKey - Digital Tools - Productivity Guild Community

Justin shares some strategies managers (and corporate employees) may find useful for their productivity systems in the corporate world.

Links:

• Home | Manager Tools
• Email Three Times A Day - Part 1 | Manager Tools
• Email Three Times A Day - Part 2 | Manager Tools

Justin wrestles with how to implement margin and discusses some of the ideas he's reviewed to do better to implement it in his life.

Links:

• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change: Stephen R. Covey: 9780743269513: Amazon.com: Books
• The "Big Rocks" of Life by Dr. Stephen R. Covey
• The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play: Neil Fiore: 8601400338544: Amazon.com: Books
• Parkinson's law - Wikipedia
• Ziglar Inc - The Wheel of Life
• Mike Schmitz -
• The Hyper-Scheduling Experiment — MacSparky
• The Pain of Change – John Maxwell

This is our first check-in episode. Justin is making progress on his goals, hasn't really figured out what he wants to do with Evernote, and doesn't really seem to use his task manager.

Links:

• The 12 Week Year: Get More Done in 12 Weeks than Others Do in 12 Months: Brian P. Moran, Michael Lennington: 9781118509234: Amazon.com: Books
• Toastmasters International -Home
• STREAKS. The to-do list that helps you form good habits. For iPhone.
• STREAKS WORKOUT. The personal trainer that you actually want to use. For iOS.
• The 1 Percent Rule: Why a Few People Get Most of the Rewards
• An Overview of How I Use OmniFocus – A Learn OmniFocus Webinar | Using OmniFocus
• Joe Buhlig | leverage the digital and welcome real life
• Homepage | Scrum.org
• Evernote
• DEVONthink
• Reinvented Software - Keep It for Mac
• Conquer your to-do list with the GTD Technique – The Crossover Blog – Medium — By failing to put things where they belong (a to-do list, a calendar, etc.), you become stressed by trying to remember everything. This leads to what Allen calls emergency scan modality, which he describes as a continual state of “scanning the horizon looking for the next fire to put out.” Needless to say, this is no way to be productive.

Justin explores the definition of productivity, how it needs to change, and what we can do to better define productivity for ourselves (hint: it has to do with our definition of success).

Drafts

Links:

• Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity: David Allen: 9780142000281: Amazon.com: Books
• Productivity Guild – The online community for macOS and iOS productivity tools and resources.
• Mac Power Users - Relay FM
• OmniFocus - task management for Mac, iPad, and iPhone - The Omni Group
• Merlin Mann - Wikipedia
• The Hit List for Mac: Handles life’s little tasks & big projects
• The all-new Things. Your to-do list for Mac & iOS
• Todoist – The Best To Do List App & Task Manager
• Bear - Notes for iPhone, iPad and Mac
• Drafts. Where Text Starts. | Drafts
• Visual Studio Code - Code Editing. Redefined
• Developing the Leader Within You: John Maxwell: 9780785281122: Amazon.com: Books
• Hyperfocus: How to Be More Productive in a World of Distraction: Chris Bailey: 9780525522232: Amazon.com: Books
• A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: How I Learned to Live a Better Story: Donald Miller: 9781400202980: Amazon.com: Books
• Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality: Donald Miller: 9780785263708: Amazon.com: Books
• Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World: Cal Newport: 9781455586691: Amazon.com: Books