Getting (back) to Getting Things Done (GTD) | GTD DC January 2016

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Getting (back) to Getting Things Done (GTD) | GTD DC

January 2016

Date:  20 Jan 2016

Attendees:  Karl, Ray, Bryant, Ke, Cecilia

Location:  COSI

Challenges Forum:

1. Deal with decluttering: moved and need to integrate unpacking into home

1. Check? is there living space that is de-cluttered (success)

2. Habit of keeping one small area clear and add to it

3. Enlist the help of professional organizers

4. Room by Room: identify purpose of each room, activities than ask do I have what we do in this room; take out what doesn’t belong

5. Take a hardline approach of whats most important to have around

2. Can’t read: lost reading habit due to ipad

1. Decide w/ small articles id how long you think it will take to read; time yourself

2. Mix up paper materials and digital

3. Apply mindfuless to reading

4. Read outloud (to help increase focus)

5. Aim to achieve focus blocks of time

6. Use ruler or stylus to keep place while reading

3. How to how focus on the strengths of gtd system

1. Processing modality test; mindfulness moment

2. Dopamine can expire focusing too much on the one thing that's great

3. Focus on the strengths discovered during the weekly review process

1. use completing the WR as time to ‘pat yourself on the back’

2. don’t measure day by what we didn’t get done

4. Where and how to begin with people who refuse to do an initial brain dump?

1. Sell the brain dump checklist as part of the package of learning GTD

2. Chunking the dump to smaller; prepping what are the inputs they need (prompting)

3. Plan of day trip with GTD like things planning a vacation

4. Goal → project → next action

5. Re-read the kazan book dr. robert mauer

5. How to plug into groups or cohorts to gain accountability

1. As a student utilize your academic advisor to get paired with another student

2. Website:coach.me

6. Quitting caffine: need boost for that over night shift

1. Green Smoothies

2. Essential oil

1. Badger Balms, doterra, sonic air diffuser

3. Vitamin B complex

4. Dried Fruit:  dates to get energy

5. Mind Noise to have background

Main Discussion: Getting (back) to Getting Things Done GTD

• Being organized in general is foundational thing that helps everyone

• Getting to clear

• Every week Ray looks at some aspect of his system

• Asking yourself am I appropriately engaged?

• Identify areas of focus

• As your organize (tag areas of focus)

• Mindfulness will be tool to make you ‘mindful’ of the actions

• Leisure time as time to play with tools but doesn’t impact system

• ROI of your GTD system “ how does the system give you payback in you life

• “Work on your habits so your habits can work for you”

• GTD as an action management system that we bring closer to doability; turn ideas your repelled by understanding resources necessary to make it executable

• Your brain power is 100% reserved for the moment (Fully present) not thinking of lil things here and there aka GTD

• Committing to intentional living aka GTD (ensure you know what that means for you)

• Using prep work to help commit you to the entire action

Resources Sharing: Calendar, Time Tracking & Scheduling Tools

• Schedule once - meetme.so

• Timetrade - higher level schedule one

• Pendng-

• Eternity - time log app

• Sunrise

• I Tell

Announcements:

• Next month 17 Feb meeting should be back at All Steel - 1725  EYE St NW

• #Prodchat  weekly Twitter

• Prod book club - Nudge (next book) 30 Jan

• Starting an author interview series

• Recommendation for those who like to be interviewed

• Need to subscribe for the year long read “organized financial life”

• Habitica:  Ray will create a GTD guild; invites will go out

• GTD Moco - Will be google hangouts