Optimizing routine tasks or researching on how you can become more efficient are very important tasks to continuously improve your productivity. With all the staff thrown at us every day, such time is rarely taken. I therefore recommend to plan improvement time into your calendar once month like any other appointment. For every month you can set a specific topic you will think about for one or two hours:
- How to make routing work more efficient
- What you can delegate or outsource to others
- Get started with a new skill you want to learn about
- etc.
Taking time for these activities might feel like a constraint in the short time, but in the long term it will significantly increase your employability or marketability with positive impact on your value and income.
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If you’d like a tool for setting your goals, you can use this application inspired by David Allen’s GTD:
http://www.Gtdagenda.com
You can use it to manage your goals, projects and tasks, set next actions and contexts, use checklists, schedules and a calendar.
A mobile version and iCal are available too.
self improvement is something you earned and learned through experiences. sets all priorities forwards to attained it. hope this can be of help time management
One of my most important planning times is the weekly review of my GTD. It sounds like your not a fan of systems, but after being a Covey and Daytimer user and trainer for many years, I finally read David Allen’s book early this year and it has made an incredible difference in my productivity and especially keeping me productive while juggling many different projects all going strong at the same time.
Like Dan, I found an application that allows me to view my entire GTD at work on my Win machine, at home on my Macs and even on my cell phone. And another app lets me call in tasks to my GTD without any writing or typing, great for those thoughts that hit me while driving.
Trusting all my tasks to one system has made a big improvement in my stress level. I’ve written about my experiences with GTD in a blog post at http://johnkendrick.wordpress.com/2008/03/27/more-getting-things-done/ John
i need matirial abount this topic