Get Things Done: 29 BIG Ideas For Getting Things Done

Name: Get Things Done: 29 BIG Ideas For Getting Things Done
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Discover 29 Simple (But Powerful) Strategies That Will Make You Productive

Created byDerek Franklin

Last updated 7/2021

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What you'll learn

29 lectures and 3.5 hours of content
Productivity strategies for organizing, managing, and getting things done on a daily basis
How to install the mindset and thinking of a productive, action-taking person
Methods of how to work smarter (and more efficiently)... not harder
Dozens of tested and proven strategies for getting your life in order and getting things done!

Course content

5 sections • 31 lectures • 3h 40m total length

Introduction - How To Get The Most From This Course2:57
Navigate this course by focusing each video on a single idea, with end-of-lesson next actions and a simple project to identify three key ideas and boost daily productivity.

Timeboxing - Turn Tasks Into Mini Goals5:55
Timeboxing converts your task list into mini goals with deadlines and focused work intervals, using a timer and breaks to boost clarity, motivation, and momentum throughout the day.
Small Tasks - A Big Idea For Handling Small Tasks5:00
Learn to batch small tasks and protect focus by disabling notifications, maintaining a two-session breakaway plan, and distinguishing recurring from dynamic tasks to boost productivity.
Plan Tomorrow Today - Get Clear And Get It Done!6:18
Plan tomorrow today by setting an end-of-day time and using the one three five rule: one big task, three medium tasks, five small tasks.
Morning Email - Check Your Email... This Way3:11
Balance morning email by using a six-step, under-five-minute process: scan for urgent messages, delete junk, archive non-urgent, do something significant, then revisit your inbox.
Next! - Choose The Right Work At The Right Time10:01
Identify the next actionable step for each task by doing a brain dump, breaking work into small, doable actions, and aligning tasks with energy and timing to build momentum.
Wake Up Early - 4 Unique Ways To Do It6:22
Wake up early to boost alertness and creativity while planning your day. Four methods—movement, spoken cues, countdown, and deep breathing—reduce irritation and increase energy.
Daily Review - The Daily Map To Your Future9:50
Adopt a daily review to map your future by answering key questions about accomplishments, learning, improvements, experiences, meals, movement, and tomorrow's to-dos, guiding you toward your goals.
Weekly Review - The Mother Of All Productivity Strategies8:54
Embrace the weekly review—the mother of all productivity strategies—to proactively align your environment, inbox, and mind with your calendar, follow ups, and tasks, planning a productive week.
Boost - 9 Simple Ways To Boost Your Energy10:39
Boost your energy with nine simple, caffeine-free strategies you can implement now, from intense wiggling and drinking water to light exposure, deep breaths, and blasting off with a countdown.

Focus - Learn To Do The 'Impossible'7:20
Strengthen your focus by treating it like a muscle: train with time boxing, stillness, and reading, while cutting distractions from email, social media, and restless habits.
Imperfectionism - Turn Your Flaws And Mistakes Into Personal Power11:43
Embrace imperfectionism to turn flaws into personal power by sharing imperfect work, extracting value, and refining through feedback and action.
Expression vs Consumption - Connect With The Flow Of Success7:18
Balance expression and consumption to harness the flow of energy and prevent overconsumption, depression, and stress. Learn practical steps to reflect daily and shift toward creating and sharing.
Action Beliefs - How To THINK Like A Productive Person16:42
cultivate action beliefs that drive massive action, embrace the flow of progress, and learn that small daily actions, motivation with elimination, and emotional focus speed up goal attainment.
Clarity - Create An Environment Where Taking Action Thrives!6:39
Develop clarity to turn hard, meaningful work into achievable steps by organizing information, environment, next actions, and details, enabling action and reducing overwhelm so you get things done.
Deadlines - Tap Into The Motivating Force Of A Time Limit5:57
Deadlines boost motivation by increasing emotional energy as due dates approach, with consequences, public commitments, specific deadlines, monetary stakes, and friendly competition driving action.
Consistency - Discover How To Unlock Success5:26
Learn how consistency drives success by continually pushing your goals toward the activator of awesome, embracing small daily actions over big pushes, and reviewing progress to form lasting habits.
Priorities - How To Find Time For Everything5:05
Prioritize the big golf-ball priorities: health, family, and goals, to fit everything else without stress. Check progress by proving these priorities flourish in daily life.
Convenience - Use Space And Time To Be More Productive6:09
Explore how convenience drives choices by distance, visibility, and hassle, and learn to design environments to start tasks in under 20 seconds.
Weakest Link - Identify And Eliminate Your Biggest Challenge In Life6:54
Identify your weakest link in your success chain by examining habits, planning, money management, influences, and beliefs, then fix the biggest hurdle with a focused, progressive plan.

Workspace - How To Create A Productive Environment7:50
Apply the broken window theory to your workspace by removing piles, disorganization, clothing choices, and digital clutter, signaling discipline and boosting focus to get things done.
To Do List - Turn It Into A DONE List3:37
Turn your to-do items into actionable tasks by using verbs, adding clear details, and setting deadlines with time boxing to boost focus and defeat procrastination.
Capture - How To Free Your Mind To Get Things Done7:32
Capture your thoughts by writing them down to gain clarity, organize ideas into lists, and create a durable record that informs next actions and daily tasks.
Systems - How To Work Smarter, Not Harder5:58
Document your process to build a simple system for multi-step tasks, with concise bullets and action-starting steps. Review, use, and improve it to stay efficient and keep it handy.
Productivity Barriers - Eliminate The Barriers/Hurdles That Slow You Down9:53
Eliminate barriers to action by applying clear to neutral to create an action-oriented environment, take one small step, and make tasks convenient with the 20-second rule to boost productivity.
Distractions - Learn 4 Strategies To Eliminate Them15:31
Learn four strategies to eliminate distractions. Use an index card to track distractions, build a do not do list, and think before you click to limit time stealers.
Projects - Start, Manage, And Finish Them In 5 Steps6:02
Apply a simple five-step framework to start, manage, and finish big projects by choosing a project, creating a project document, listing actions with next steps, gathering references, and capturing processes.
Batching - Use Flow To Ramp Up Your Efficiency4:45
Batching helps you maintain flow and momentum by grouping similar tasks into theme days and working long blocks on each activity for greater efficiency.
Beast Mode - How To Get A Lot Done, Quickly!5:16
Activate beast mode by preparing your environment, listing tasks, gathering tools, turning off distractions, boosting energy with movement and breath, and using a timer to take focused action.
Errands - Upgrade How You Handle Your Errands4:58
Upgrade your errands with a digital, shareable list accessible anywhere, offering flexibility and universal access. Implement four steps: create an online document, capture items as bullets with details, share, bookmark.

Requirements

A commitment to do whatever it takes to become an action-taking machine!

Description

Hello, my name is Derek!

And I know you have a lot to do, so let’s cut right to the chase...

In this course, you’re going to discover productivity strategies for getting things done.

Here are 29 BIG Ideas you’re going to learn to help you do this.

DAILY PRODUCTIVITY

Idea 1: Timeboxing - In this lesson, you’re going to learn a simple, but very effective way of accomplishing all your everyday tasks by turning them into mini goals.
Idea 2: Small Tasks - In this video, I’m going to introduce you to what I call, Breakaway Sessions, which is a strategy for taking care of all the small tasks that take 1-5 minutes to complete, so they don’t interfere with REAL, focused work.
Idea 3: Plan Tomorrow, Today - Jim Rohn once said: Don’t start your day until you’ve finished it on paper. You’re going to learn what he meant, and how to put this awesome idea into action!
Idea 4: Morning Email - It’s a common belief that checking email in the morning can destroy your productivity the rest of the day. In this video, I’m going to show you how to do it the right way, so that it doesn’t.
Idea 5: Next! - A big part of getting things done is being able to choose the right action, at the right time. In this video, I’m going to show you how to do that.
Idea 6: Wake Up Early - Waking up early isn’t a requirement for getting things done… but it sure does help. If you struggle with this, I’m going to show you 4 unique ways for waking up early that really work!
Idea 7: Daily Review - As you travel through life, wouldn’t it be great to have a map to guide your actions and decisions? You can, when you learn to do a Daily Review, as I’ll teach you in this lesson.
Idea 8: Weekly Review - This is a strategy I refer to as the mother of all productivity strategies. It’s that awesome! In this video, I’ll show what it is, how it works, and how you can start using it right away!
Idea 9: Boost - Getting things done requires energy. In this lesson, you’re going to discover 9 simple ways to boost your energy anytime you need it!

PRODUCTIVE MINDSET

Idea 1: Focus - Right now, you have a focus muscle that is either strong or weak. I’m gonna share with you why it’s important to master your ability to focus and how to develop it if your focus is weak.
Idea 2: Imperfectionism - If you’re like most people, perfectionism is holding you back from achieving your full potential. In this lesson I’m going to share with you eight reasons to embrace making mistakes, showing your flaws, and being imperfect.
Idea 3: Expression vs Consumption - There are two main ways you interact with the world around you. They’re both useful and needed, but one creates a powerful momentum in your life to achieve what you want. In this lesson I’m going to show you how to create the spark to ignite this momentum.
Idea 4: Action Beliefs - What you believe about taking action drives HOW you take action. In this video lesson, we’re going to install nine important action beliefs into your brain.
Idea 5: Clarity - If you don’t have clarity in your life and you are not clear about what needs done, your brain is going to resist taking action. In this lesson, you’re going to clear the clutter in your mind so your brain sees the path to help you achieve what matters most to you!
Idea 6: Deadlines - The concept of a deadline is a powerful motivating force for getting things done. In this lesson, you’re going to learn everything you need to know to start using deadlines as a motivation tool in all areas of your life.
Idea 7: Consistency - You probably hear all the time about why you need to be consistent in what you practice, what you create, and what you do. Are you consistent? If not, this video lesson is going to show you the mechanics of how consistency works and why it’s an essential ingredient to any success.
Idea 8: Priorities - So you have a ton of things to track, manage, and work on. The order that you take care of them plays a huge role as to whether you get them done or not. It’s all about choices. In this lesson, I’ll show you how to choose wisely.
Idea 9: Convenience - You may not realize it, but your physical environment significantly influences your behavior. In this Lesson, I’m going to show you how it works, and how to intentionally design your environment to support taking action!
Idea 10: Weakest Link - Right now, there is one thing in your life that’s standing in the way of you reaching your full potential. In this lesson, you’re going to learn how to identify it and how to eliminate it.

TAKE ACTION/WORK SMARTER

Idea 1: Workspace - Your environment plays a significant role in your ability to get things done. In this video I’ll teach you how to create a productive environment that promotes taking action!
Idea 2: To Do List - In this video, you’re going to discover four ways that you can ramp up the power of your to do list so you can turn it into a done list.
Idea 3: Capture - Your brain is built to do some amazing things… keeping track of information and ideas isn’t really one of them. In this lesson I’m gonna demonstrate the power of writing things down, and simple approach to doing it.
Idea 4: Systems - No matter what you’re working on, you want to learn how to work smarter, not harder. Systems enable you to do this, and I’m going to show you how to use them in this video lesson.
Idea 5: Productivity Barriers - Being productive not only involves doing the right things, but eliminating things that stand in your way of taking action. This entire lesson is devoted to helping you remove the barriers that stand in your way of getting things done.
Idea 6: Distractions - As you know, distractions are one of the biggest hurdles to working efficiently. In this video, I’m going to show you 4 strategies to help you eliminate distractions once and for all!
Idea 7: Projects - Getting things done not only involves taking care of individual tasks, but oftentimes, projects, which involve a number of tasks. In this lesson you’re going to learn a 5 Step system for starting and managing projects properly.
Idea 8: Batching - There’s a slow and inefficient approach to getting things done, and then there’s a fast and efficient approach to getting things done, known as batching. I’m going to teach you how to batch.
Idea 9: Beast Mode - Somedays, no matter how hard you try to work productively, you need to get more done than you normally do. This is where beast mode can help. In this lesson I’ll explain what it is and how to use it.
Idea 10: Errands - Running errands as a part of everyday life. In this lesson, I’m going to show you a four step process for bringing your errands list into the 21st-century.

If you want to learn how to get things done, you’re going to love this course!

Derek

Who this course is for:

People who are being buried alive by the tasks and demands that life continues to pile on top of them
The overwhelmed, stressed, disorganized, and burned out
Anyone who is sick and tired of working themselves to the bone with few results to show for it
Writers, teachers, business owners, or anyone who regularly creates, brainstorms, and manages ideas, people, and tasks

Get Things Done: 29 BIG Ideas For Getting Things Done

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Course content

Introduction1 lecture • 3min

9 BIG Ideas For Daily Productivity9 lectures • 1hr 6min

10 BIG Ideas For Developing The Mindset Of An Action-Taker!10 lectures • 1hr 19min

10 BIG Ideas For Working Smarter... NOT Harder10 lectures • 1hr 11min

Thank You!1 lecture • 1min

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Description

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