Demo Day | GTD DC May 2018 Meeting Mintues
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Demo Day | GTD DC May 2018
Date: 16 May 2018
Attendees: Ray, Karl, Bruce, Ken, Ke, Sarah, Vince, Alex, Steve, Albert
Location: WeWork - Whitehouse
Challenges Forum
Topic: Person was curious about the number of projects to handle btw work and home
We went around the room asking average between 3 or 4 projects work, home, family
10-15 at work on the large end as supervision
6 across home and work
Topic: Personal email organization - the motivation for getting back to inbox zero
Categorize
Triage; inbox by gmail , Astro uses machine language
Motivation the task can be smaller than you really think
Topic: 11 days off; help planning time and goals that can be achieved; Interests; switching .com services, diet changes, life thoughts, time management
Research staycation ideas & combine with productivity
Find something in the middle of the day and plan around it like an anchor
Decide and commit to X number of things per day; met the goal and the rest of the day is ‘free time’
Build a structured day around something personal or get up and get out the house
Research project templates on how to manage this amount of free time
Topic: Need good outline app
Popular recommendation: work flowy
Gingko
Simple Mind - Mind mapping
Omni Outliner (Mac/ios only)
Toggl
Tasks (Android)
MS Word - using headers and Table of Contents
Topic: Prioritizing when everything is important and urgent
Assume your not getting it done what are the consequences in X amount of time?
What is the ideal situation and what action would move you towards that?
Can you delegate tasks? Can you actually survive if you don’t get it done
Remember to say NO to things in advance; filter before it lands on your list
Move items to someday/maybe - your committed but at a later time
Utilize a Systematic way of looking at things
Topic: The complaining culture at work; how to gracefully exit those type of conversations
6 thinking hats Books: educate the team; engaging everyone different hats different parts of the day; meeting facilitation tool
Give a him a time limit of venting
Remind him that that language is infectious
Establish boundary of what is acceptable communication
Topic: Very familiar with GTD; still a bit OCD and having blinders how to gain a better perspective on the things you don’t enjoy
Triggers - Marshall Goldsmith Book Recommendation; around having a standard of excellence
Podcast Cortex; just discussed the book (Episode 66)
Main Presentation: DEMOSs
Trello & GTD (Ray)
Concept based on the Book: Personal Kaban
2do
The Brain Software
Dynamic Mind map
Client but has a web interface
Recommend watching videos:
Resources Sharing: Topic Open
Deep Work Book
Linux Terminal 2do
Podcast: the life coach school
Rocketbook Everlast - reusable notebooks
Announcements:
Future Meetup Topic:Power of When [Book] ; Just WIN (sister book); Read before hand will be a future meet up to discuss styles.. compare/contrast
Next meeting back at COSI 15th + K
Planning 6-7 weeks from now; gtd (all local cities) website is coming (Forum, events, Blog posts)
Webinar; Getting more done Book release OCT - Email Ray if interested in attending webinar & potentially providing feedback on new book release
Prod Book Group
Reduced quarterly calls
Books:
Next book in June
#Prodchat every Wednesday 8pm on Twitter (RESUMES MAY 23rd)
15 min video chat after the twitter chat
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ProductivityCast - soliciting feedback for Ray and Augusto Pinaud new podcast
Habitica - uses gamification for tasks & habits; limited to 30 people; email if you would like to join GTD’ers questing and getting things done in a fun manor