Get Things Done: How To Organize Your Life And Take Action

This video teaches you the most important part of the system - Actions Today, which is the area of the map that helps you get today done.

You'll learn:

• What items go here
• How items end up here
• Why and how to add time and specificity to each item
• Simple strategies for taking action on the items and getting them done

Life is full of small, pesky tasks that need to be taken care of (checking social media, ordering something online, etc.), but it's hard to schedule time to do them.

This video shows you a simple strategy for dealing with these kinds of tasks.

What you do at the end of today plays an important part in how successful you will be at accomplishing what you do tomorrow.

This video is a short introduction what it means to plan tomorrow, today (it gets explained in greater detail later).

Actions in Focus are tasks that don't need done today, but need done sometime between tomorrow and the next 6 months - these don't have your attention today, but they're on your 'radar.'

This video explains:

• How items end up here
• How to categorize Actions in Focus to make them more manageable
• The difference between single actions and projects
• How to add single actions
• How to add and manage projects
• When and how to move action items from Actions in Focus to Actions Today

• You just delegated a task to someone and you have to wait for them to complete it
• You're not sure you want to go on vacation with your parents until you discuss it with your spouse
• You mailed in a rebate request and now have to wait for a check

These types of 'tasks-in-waiting' are called Follow Ups in The Action Map System.

This video explains how to add them to the map and manage them so they get taken care of.

The lesson shows you:

• How to maintain a simple errands list (even one that is used by your entire household)
• When to schedule the doing of your errands

This is a recap of how to use the Actions section of the system, as well as a list of next actions to complete before moving on to the next section, including:

• Planning tomorrow, today
• Identifying and setting up Break Away Session items
• Setting up the Actions in Focus area of your map
• Identifying and entering your current follow ups
• Creating an errands list

How do you remember all the things you have to do on a regular basis? That's the job of the Triggers section of the map.

This lesson explains:

• The difference between a trigger and a calendar event
• The importance of Day of the Week triggers
• How to use triggers in your everyday life
• The unique association between the Triggers and Domains sections of the map

This is a recap of how to use the Triggers section of the system, as well as a list of next actions to complete before moving on to the next section, including:

• Identifying and setting up your daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly triggers

In this video lesson, you learn about one of the major elements of The Action Map System that separates it from your run-of-the-mill to-do list managers - Domains.

You'll discover:

• What types of items in your life that domains are used for managing
• The benefits of using domains
• How to set up the domains in your map to fit your specific needs
• How domains are structured and used

This lesson shows you how to use domains to manage:

• Lists
• Ideas
• Templates
• Notes
• Knowledge
• Any other kind of content you may want to reference in the future

The Action section of each domain on your map is used for holding and managing any kind of action-oriented knowledge that has value or meaning to you. This is knowledge that you use to complete tasks.

This could include:

• Checklists
• Step-by-step directions for completing a task

This lesson explains why capturing and organizing this kind of information in the Domains section of your map is incredibly useful for getting life done, and you'll see a number of practical examples of how to use it in your everyday life.

In this video, we discuss the 'bucket list' area of the Action Map - where you capture all the things you want to accomplish someday.

Domain items can be a variety of different things:

• Simple lists
• Extensive plans
• Templates
• PDF documents
• Graphics
• Bookmarks
• Folders of content on your computer

This lesson shows you when to use what, where to keep it, and how to find it later.

One of the most powerful and useful aspects to Domains is how they are used in conjunction with the Actions and Triggers areas of your Action Map.

Here you'll see how all the pieces tie together to help you become a productivity machine!

This is a recap of how to use the Domains section of the system, as well as a list of next actions to complete before moving on to the next section, including:

• Creating domain categories based on your needs
• Filling up and organizing each domain with Reference, Action, and Someday content, based on the guidelines we discussed in this section of the course
• After your Domains are set up, reviewing the Actions and Triggers areas of your map to decide whether any elements there could benefit from anything within your domains
• Refining and using your domains

Occasionally, you need to stop doing, long enough to do some reviewing. :-)

This lesson discusses two important benefits that come from regularly looking at your map with a mindset of examining what's there, what needs taken care of, and what might need changed or removed.

The brief video explains the basics of doing both a Daily and Weekly review.

This lesson discusses:

• When to do a daily review
• How long it should take
• What's involved in doing a daily review
• The goal of doing a daily review

This lesson discusses:

• When to do a weekly review
• How long it should take
• What's involved in doing a weekly review - step-by-step and in detail
• The goal of doing a weekly review
• How to set up a trigger to remember to do it

What you learn in this video lesson keeps the entire 'machine' of your Action Map running smoothly.

This is a recap of how to do both Daily and Weekly reviews, as well as a list of next actions to complete before moving on to the next section, including:

• Deciding when you want to do your daily review - morning or afternoon
• Doing a daily review
• Picking a day when to do your weekly review and create a Day of the Week trigger for it.
• Doing a weekly review

Now that you've learned all the elements of The Action Map System and how they work, this lesson helps you understand how to deal with, and process, all the items that flow into your life on a daily basis. - in other words, where they belong on the map and how to get them done!

This lesson shows you how to use The Action Map System when you're mobile, or not in front of your main computer.

This video contains some very simple strategies for capturing actions, follow ups, ideas, somedays, and other map items when all you have is your smartphone.

Getting life done isn't only about having a beautiful system that helps you do the right things, it's also about eliminating bad things that create resistance, clutter, and stress.

In this video, you'll learn strategies for identifying and destroying 3 common habits that contribute to information overload.

In this video, I share some encouragement with you to go out there and do something amazing with your new, improved, productive, action-filled life! :-)

This is a high-resolution PDF infographic/chart of the entire Action Map System that you should print and either place on your desk or hang on your wall, so you can easily reference how to use any part of the system with a quick review.

This is a low-resolution, preview version of the Action Map System chart, so potential students can get a better feel for what's offered in the course.

This is a high-resolution PDF infographic/chart that demonstrates how to use The Action Map System to manage all of the flow (to-dos, appointments, projects, decisions, goals, and ideas) that enters your life. You can print this chart up and either place on your desk or hang on your wall.