Get Things Done

Producers get things done.

The hard part is getting the right things done. According to Tim Ferriss, “Being busy is a form of laziness—lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.”

Some people are lazy because they don’t get anything done at all. But I’d guess that most Christians I know are lazy because they busily get the wrong things done.

For now, though, I’m not going to dig into how to know if you’re getting the right things done.

I’m just going to go through my process for getting things done after I know what I need to do.

There is a book called Getting Things Done by David Allen that I know some find helpful, but it’s too complicated for me to follow completely.

Disclaimer: I have changed my process in the past and it’s possible that I’ll change it in the future. Take what works and throw out the rest. (And let me know why because maybe I’ll be able to throw some stuff out, too.)

There are two key things I need to get things done

1. One is to get it out of my head. Anything that bounces around in your head distracts you from focused work.

2. The other is to get it into a place where I can most efficiently process it. For me that’s email and calendar.

What do you think?
Joseph