How do you plan the work you’ll do? Do you make a schedule every day? Week? Month? Maybe you’re happy figuring out what to work on over the next hour and as long as you have something in front of you, you’re fine.
How do you plan the work you’ll do? Do you make a schedule every day? Week? Month? Maybe you’re happy figuring out what to work on over the next hour and as long as you have something in front of you, you’re fine.
Creativity and productivity thrive under different conditions. What improves one, hinders the other. How then do you incorporate creative work into a productivity system like Getting Things Done (GTD)?
Understanding how a system like GTD works is the theory. You have to put the theory into practice to gain any benefit. Typically that means finding a tool to store all your tasks and setting it up in a way so you can make use of the system.
Creativity with it’s winding and meandering journeys and productivity with its straight line efficiency don’t always get along. What you do to improve one seems to reduce how well you can complete the other.
Every year I set a goal to become more productive, which for me usually means looking over my current task management system, observing what I’m doing well and what I need to improve.