“Day 092/366 – To Do List” by Great Beyond is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
Your toughest work is defining what your work is! – Peter Drucker
SUMMARY
This week I finished up some old work, did work for my paid job, and completed the tasks on my enormous to-do list such as my EE Criterion A, Spanish blog post, Italy history assignment, UW application, and more. There were a handful of things I didn’t get around to unfortunately, but I should be able to wrap those up this upcoming week.
PRACTICE ROOM (TUTORIALS)
In this ‘room’ you are going to try Getting Things Done (GTD).
STEP 1: MAKE A LIST
- EE Criterion A
- Apply for AES scholarship
- Submit application to Colorado Boulder
- Work on UW application
- Sneakonthelot two lessons
- Figure out Celtx
- Interview people at Solomon’s Reef
- Italy history assignment
- Chem LTS 4-7
- Chem assessment
- Work on Chem IA Procedure
- Spanish blog post
- Finish discussion posts in English
- Review/study calc
- Take calc test
- Meeting materials for community transit job
- Recruitment summary and updated applicant list
- Schedule interviews for Lewis County job
- TOK think of history topic
STEP 2: NOTICE WHAT YOU NOTICED
- Italy history assignment
- Spanish blog post
- Submit application to Colorado Boulder
- Work on UW application
- EE Criterion A
- Meeting materials for community transit job
- Recruitment summary and updated applicant list
- Schedule interviews for Lewis County job
- Sneakonthelot two lessons
- Figure out Celtx
- Interview people at Solomon’s Reef
- Chem LTS 4-7
- Chem assessment
- Finish discussion posts in English
- Review/study calc
- Take calc test
- Apply for AES scholarship
- Work on Chem IA Procedure
- TOK think of history topic
STEP 3: SET A TIMER
- Set a timer for your first task
- Decide how long you think it will take before you start
- Start working
- Repeat this process for 45 minutes for as many tasks as you can complete, then take a 15-minute break
- Get up and get a drink of water
- Get up and go for a walk
- Every 20 minute blink your eyes 20 times while looking at least 20 feet away
- This is good for your eyes
Start steps 1 through 3 again, repeat for your school day
OUTSIDE (PRODUCTIVITY & THE BRAIN)
- Set a timer
- Spend up to 20 minutes in this ‘room’
- Watch the first 30 seconds of this Oct. 2020 interview with David Allen
- Reflect on GTD and getting to the top of the colorful list above for a minute
- How can the GTD process help you tame the crazy-busy dragon of modern life?
- Then, go for a 15-minute walk, if it is safe to do so
- Write a few sentence reflection
OPTIONAL EXERCISE – Literally, read the article and go for another walk 🙂
“I coach C-suite executives and rising stars from the earliest startups to Fortune 100 companies. My passion is to help ambitious leaders achieve their full human potential.” – Read more about Katia…
- Set a timer
- Spend up to 15 minutes reading…
- FastCompany Magazine article about Katia Verresen’s techniques and GTD, https://www.fastcompany.com/3026827/the-brain-hacks-top-founders-use-to-get-the-job-done
- Then, go for another 15-minute walk, if it is safe to do so
WHAT I LEARNED and PROBLEMS I SOLVED
I learned that sometimes I need to let myself breathe in between assignments and classes or else I won’t be able to function. I also learned I work best when there is white noise around me so I’ve started using coffee shop background noise. One problem I had to solve was for my Language and Literature class I have been planning to interview people who work at local restaurants, but none of them have been answering my calls or calling me back and I can’t go interview them in person, so now I am behind on the deadline. My solution was to change my article topic slightly so I don’t need these interviews.