10 Steps to Ultimate Productivity Course

Lesson 10 - How to Put Your Perfect Productivity System in Place (today!)

Welcome to the last step of our "10-steps to Ultimate Productivity Course". Here I'll help you start putting your own productivity system in place. We've covered a lot of material in the past lessons, don't let it overwhelm you, let's go! As we said, what's on your mind is what's bothering you, so make sure to put your thoughts, documents and everything else into one big inbox. Literally put them all in a box. Now start processing the box until it's at zero. Decide what to do with a piece of p...

Lesson 9 - How to Manage Email Efficiently

Welcome to Step 9 of our "10-steps to Ultimate Productivity Course". Here I'll share with you my best practices and tips when it comes to email. How I get email done every day. And how I integrate it with my productivity system. One thing is your productivity tool and the one you choose can be Nozbe or any other tool that has most of the characteristics we mentioned in previous lessons. Your tool should encourage you NOT to "organize tasks" but to really "get tasks done" and move forward to ach...

Lesson 8 - How to Review Your Productivity System Regularly

Welcome to Step 8 of our "10-steps to Ultimate Productivity Course". Here we'll make you schedule 1-2 hours a week for a meeting with yourself to review your productivity system. Trust me, it's a very important meeting. So you have mastered the previous 7 lessons of our course. You know how to clear your head, organize tasks into projects, define next actions, work from anywhere and with anyone... and use contexts and reference material. That's great. But even if you've done all that and you f...

Lesson 7 - How to Manage Your Reference Material (documents)

Welcome to Step 7 of our "10-steps to Ultimate Productivity Course". Here we'll learn to deal with our "reference materials" - all the documents that are required to get certain tasks done. Productive life starts and ends with to-do lists... but there is something in between - the reference material and all the helpful documents you need, to really get your tasks done. Your documents, notes, files are not an integral part of your productivity system, but they are the "backbone” of information ...

Lesson 6 - How to Work in Contexts (categorize tasks)

Welcome to part 6 of our "10-steps to Ultimate Productivity Course". Here we'll talk about "Contexts" - a concept borrowed from the David Allen's book "Getting Things Done". In short "GTD". Well, you already are a productivity ninja as you've mastered the way of adding tasks, organizing them into projects and getting them done from your "Priority" list. Although I'm not a big fan of prioritizing, I like "categorizing" to-do list thanks to a method from GTD called "contexts". The "Contexts" con...