gtd basics, how to improve your productivity

Who am I?

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John Calistro

Coder, Geek and a bit of hacker

Community manager @primesystemsbr

Rescway CTO

NSCoderNight, @AppsterdamBR and @CocoaHeadsBRco-organizer

FIESP Young Entrepreneurs committee member

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Getting Things DoneGTD

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The ProblemYou are crazy busy

You have no time, 24 hours is not enough

You need to focus

Micro-manager its not the solution

You fell that everything is ok

Lack of control

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The MethodCollect

Process

Organize

Do

Review

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Collect (inbox)Brain dump

Throw everything in there, bills, business cards, files to review, documents to read, annotations.

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ProcessDelete

Defer

Delegate

Do

The “Four Ds”

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ProcessIs it actionable? NoYes

> 2 minutesDeferDelegate

< 2 minutesDo

DeleteSomedayFile

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OrganizeProject

Location

Person

Calendar

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OrganizeNow

Next

Later

Soon

Someday

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Daily Review

3 most important things to do today

Do not check your email before this task

Morning routine

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Daily Review

The focus for tomorrow

What did you do?

What can be improved?

Night routine

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Weekly Review

Review the projects

The focus for the next week

What did you forgot to do?

What can be improved?

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Monthly Review

The focus for your life

The big picture

Key roles, values and life priorities

Someday folder

Can be executed at any life-changing event

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The method workflow

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