Productivity:
Using your time to produce something in an efficient way. Focus on your work. This is the strength of the "Pomodoro Method" with the focus on working on short productive time bursts and measuring your productivity in 25 minute units (pomodoro). Cal Newport's focus on deep work is also a focus on being productive. And of course the often repeated topic of deliberate practice: Not all practice is equal. Depending on how you practice, you will get better results.
Organization:
How do you organize your tasks and plan your day? How do you deal with a huge workload and unexpected interruptions? This is where methods like GTD or the kanban approach focus on. To organize your work in a way that helps you to be more productive.
Energy:
This is the big theme of Tony Schwartz' book "The Power of Full Engagement". Don't manage time, manage energy. If you manage your day in a way that give you more energy, you will be more productive and get better results.
Time Management methods/methodologies:
- Getting Things Done (GTD): David Allen's approach/philosophy is arguably the best known time management system in the world. It's the most complex in the sense that it has the goal to get every detail of your life into a system to organize and handle all tasks. You collect everything in your inbox, process the inbox and work with a mind like water, that can approach every situation with calm as you have a system to handle every situation. Most people haven't gotten that far, but the system sounds logical enough to stay relevant and popular.
- Do It Tomorrow (DIT): Mark Forster's approach with a focus on closed lists.
- Dan Kennedy: Works with a calendar and scripts his days in minutes. He guarantees productivity by spending the first hour of the day on the most important task for himself (which is writing) and doing one task everyday to work towards more business. From he described in his interview with Lee Milteer, he's using a storyboard with notecards as a n organizing tool. Sounds like Kanban to me. He sets strict deadlines for everything, his own tasks and appointments with other people. He keeps a file with all the people he regularly meets to note down agreements and discussion points (things he wants to talk about, or information he is expecting).
- The Next Hour of Your Life: A simple system by Mark Forster where you jot down in a list the tasks you're going to during the next hour. Do the tasks in order. Update the list regularly so that it always contains an hour's worth of tasks. Finish all the tasks for the day.
Mark Forster likes simple systems. And this is one of his no-list systems. A system where you are not driven by your long to-do lists. You do what is necessary in the moment. This gives you the freedom to do the tasks that matter and that you feel like you can do at that moment. - Pomodoro Technique: Simple approach to be more productive.
- Tony Robbins' RPM: The course is titled "Time of Your Life"
20170109 notes "Time of Your Life" Tony Robbins -mynotetakingnerd.com
Links to Time Management Approaches:
- Mark Forster: 20170110 Mark Forster: Overview
- Timeboxing: 20170111 Timeboxing Concept