Overview
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Get time management strategies to stay organized, keep a clear mind, and be more productive—in work and life.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- The power of managing your time
- Using the exercise files
- Finding your motivation for lasting change
- Understanding the focus-chaos scale
- Getting the most from this course
- Addressing the myth of multitasking
- Reducing the costs of switchtasking
- Understanding the three principles of productivity
- Taking an inventory of your gathering points
- Narrowing your gathering points
- Setting up an inbox gathering point
- Working with a portable inbox
- Getting the most from a notepad
- Reducing multiple email accounts
- Choosing your messaging app
- Picking a wild card gathering point
- Separating work and personal gathering points
- Taking the next step to controlling your space
- Selecting your mind clearing options
- Clearing your mind of its to-dos with mental triggers
- Setting a mind-clearing schedule
- Keeping your mind clear
- Choosing the right calendar for you
- Using your calendar effectively
- Saying no to others
- Saying no to yourself
- Equipping yourself for action
- Getting your gathering points ready
- Gathering to your inbox: Desk
- Gathering to your inbox: Elsewhere
- Mastering the what, when, where processing system
- Processing question 1: What is the next step?
- Processing question 2: When will it be done?
- Processing question 3: Where is its home?
- Paper and paperless filing made simple
- Digital storage made simple
- Processing your first inbox
- Processing your paper or digital notepad
- Setting your processing schedule
- Applying what, when, where processing to email
- Using an email archive folder
- Creating email rules or filters
- Processing an example email
- Processing email vs. checking email
- Understanding work time vs. you time
- Establishing the most valuable activities
- Identifying your most valuable activities
- Budgeting time for your most valuable activities
- Using your time budgeter
- Customizing your time management system
- Maintaining your productivity gains
- Dave's story on getting organized
