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Inspired by Danny Schreibers post about How to Scale Yourself and Get More Done Than You Thought Possible, https://zapier.com/blog/scale-yourself-scott-hanselman/
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productivity.md

Getting back my productivity

Effectiveness is doing the right things.
Efficiency is doing things right.

Effectiveness

  • three outcomes for the day
  • three outcomes for the week
  • three outcomes for the year

Efficiency

Rules

  • Focus on defining work first!
  • Don't do work as it appears, only it's fu urgent
  • No mails checking until 11am and after 7pm
  • Try to drop the ball, say no!
  • Save your keystrokes, write short mails or pickup the phone

Tools

  • Work with pomodoro technique (mac: Tomighty)
  • Create CC mailboxes (gmail: "label:inbox cc:me", skip inbox, apply label "_CC")
  • Create community mailbox (girlfriend, family, friends)
  • Use DND on phone and pc during pomodoro!

Pomodoros

  1. Define work, three major outcomes for today
  2. 2 work pomodoros
  3. Mail pomodoro (do it < 1min, drop it, delegate it or defer it)
  4. Big Break, Lunch
  5. Define work?
  6. Mail pomodoro
  7. Work pomodoros
  8. Recap pomodoro

Optimize

  • Friday is reflection day
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