Baby Steps to Get Control [Cal Newport]
Download MP3How to slowly easy into Capture, Configure, Control.
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- Time Block Plan - give every minute a job
- Setup Task Boards - keep track of every task and their status
- this week
- ambiguous
- major projects
- waiting to hear back
- Full Capture - by end of day - every obligation is out of head, in a trusted system
- Email inbox
- Calendar
- Task Board
- Weekly Plan - at beginning of each week, build plan for week
- block time for critical things
- interfaces with daily Time Block Plan
- Strategic Plan
- The Vision for your professional life (for quarter)
- Vision interacts with weekly plan
- Automate and Eliminate
- reduce amounts of context switches
- batch stuff, handing off, outsourcing
- say no, leave, step away
- Go for it
- take really ambitious projects, big swings
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