👋Hey Friends,
Welcome to “Not So Secret”, a didactic blog, where two dudes Naveen and Hari from Tamil Nadu, share about books, productivity, and lifestyle.
We are gonna be looking at, David Allen’s amazing book “Getting Things Done”, which is the Bible of Productivity.
We all want to be more productive, right? But what does being productive mean and how can we improve our productivity to live happier, healthier, and more efficient lives?
So, in this post we gonna share the 5 key principles of productivity, that is
CAPTURE – CLARIFY – ORGANIZE – REFLECT – ENGAGE
which made us more productive over the years.
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| https://gettingthingsdone.com/what-is-gtd/ |
This methodology, yep it is a methodology mostly used by everyone, if you are into productivity you must read this book, btw the link is below.
We have different sorts of commitments, projects, like official works, school, relationships,.. so the basic idea of getting things done is to manage our work.
So GTD gives us a system for organizing all of these commitments in our life and of getting them done effectively. There is a lot more in the book, just read it.
Let us start with,
Capture
the main idea from the capture thing is,
Your Mind is for Having ideas, not for Holding Them
yes, the title of the post. And the big reason why loads of us are less productive is that we are using our brain as a to-do list. We don’t have a dedicated system to upload all of our ideas and tasks. So if we got anything to do or any idea from the mind, we just write it down, somewhere else.
So for us, We are obsessed with the capture thing this made us more productive, we write it down whatever we got to do at the instance.
So usually we use the app Todoist for capturing and other sorts of stuff, which is pretty good.
the first step is capture then we are moving into the second step,
Clarify
Being less productive or procrastinating is because we are not clear on what we got to do with our tasks and their next step.
After capturing all of our tasks, we need to clarify what to do with them, what is the next step. We have to write the steps to get the task done. for instance, writing this post, I uploaded the idea of writing this blog in notion (oh yeah, will be talking more are notion in future posts) and the next step for this task is to find the best title, then find the best thumbnail, then collect information, so on.. we need to specify each task.
Organize
we all got this! organize each task, put it where it belongs to. we need to out all the tasks in the right areas, like Personal, Office, School, Home works, Assignments, Classes, …
Reflect
this is pretty simple, we need to review our list and that’s where the things like daily reviews, weekly reviews, and monthly reviews come. we need to look back for clarity on what we are doing. just zoom out from the task and check are you going at the right speed over time.
Engage
Were we come to do the thing. we look through our list which is 100% ready to board. and the main point is we should not have anything about the next or anything about our tasks. we just do it as we planned. Everything is in our system, and we trust it
That’s all the stuff, C-C-O-R-E where we do more efficient works with our time.
Must buy the book, and just read it.
See you in the next post,
Have a nice time,
Hari and Naveen 🙂