{"id":794,"date":"2023-06-24T08:34:35","date_gmt":"2023-06-24T14:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/?p=794"},"modified":"2023-06-24T08:34:35","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T14:34:35","slug":"getting-things-done-and-the-second-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/getting-things-done-and-the-second-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Things Done and The Second Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been studying procrastination and productivity for years!\u00a0 I was brought back to the work by David Allen on <em>Getting Things Done<\/em>.\u00a0 So, I&#8217;m re-reading his book &#8212; which is now in its revised edition.\u00a0 For me, it boils down to two things:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0 You can only manage your actions, not your time or your priorities.<\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0 Identifying the next action step in your project helps you stay focused and not become overwhelmed with the whole project.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/There-is-no-such-thing-as.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/There-is-no-such-thing-as-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"There is no such thing as Time Management.  You can only manage what you Do within  a block of time based upon the priorities you have assigned a task.\" class=\"wp-image-802\" width=\"464\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/There-is-no-such-thing-as-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/There-is-no-such-thing-as-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/There-is-no-such-thing-as-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/There-is-no-such-thing-as-850x478.jpg 850w, https:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/There-is-no-such-thing-as.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 464px) 100vw, 464px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So the next time you are wondering what to do:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Look at your projects<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Break them down into a series of tasks &#8212; next action steps<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Survey all of your next action steps for your projects<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Decide what is the best use of your time based on the time you have available and the next action steps from all of your projects<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pay attention to deadlines when deciding what is the best use of your time, what you will do now<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Set a timer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Get the task done<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mark it off<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Feel the joy of accomplishment<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Proceed with the next action item you have identified<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Don&#8217;t try to Remember it All!  &#8212; Enter Your Second Brain<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am obsessed with lists.  I write everything down&#8230;in multiple notebooks or digitally in electronic documents.  Then, I don&#8217;t remember where I have written it down or which cloud it is stored in.  In Tiago Forte&#8217;s, <em>Building a Second Brain <\/em>book, he suggests one area to keep all of your notes &#8212; and then review projects and notes on a regular basis.  I have adopted this concept of keeping a repository of my notes in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.notion.so\/\">Notion<\/a>.  I also keep <strong>one<\/strong> notebook with my written notes and process that regularly, deciding what gets saved into my Notion repository.  Check out Megan Sumrell&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.megansumrell.com\/blog\/how-to-stay-organized-with-only-one-notebook\">How to Stay Organized with One Notebook<\/a> and the One Notebook Challenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I found that I was really wasting a lot of time.  I was re-creating notes I already have.  Now, I have a very organized notebook and online repository that is searchable for finding my notes.  It has been a real game-changer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been studying procrastination and productivity for years!\u00a0 I was brought back to the work by David Allen on Getting Things Done.\u00a0 So, I&#8217;m re-reading his book &#8212; which is now in its revised edition.\u00a0 For me, it boils down to two things:\u00a0 1.\u00a0 You can only manage your actions, not your time or&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":807,"href":"https:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions\/807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}