Organization

#distill

PARA System

PROJECTS have a specific deadline or endpoint AREAS are continuous areas of committment RESOURCES ARCHIVE

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  • Duplicate your lists across several platforms
  • Have laser-focused, specific goals
  • Have habits, routines, and rituals
  • Files enter through active projects and filter down as needed

  • Areas consist of timebound projects

    "You maintain areas and achieve projects."

  • MindsweepMindsweep
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    COMBINE projects tied to the same outcome
    DELETE unimportant ones
    ADD single events to the calendar and off your project list
    MOVE someday/maybe projects to the bottom

  • Priority Order
    • Do they reflect your longterm goals and values?
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      every Sunday habit to reconsider and rearrange priorities.
  • Define the Desired Outcome
    • Write goals in present tense with specific dates e.g. Nov 19th or End of 2019
    • What does success look like for this goal?
    • Use action verbs Finalize, submit, send, post, publish, complete
  • Planning Projects
    • Add hard constraints around time lines. Anchor them to other work/life events
    • Create a MetaplanMetaplan
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      A list of desired Metaplan#^e59f21|outcomes. Be very specific with these. Expand each outcome into the projects needed to achieve it.

      Outcome A

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    • Define small projects.Break up big undertakings into little, manageable projects that you can systematically work through.
      • Arrange projects in a logical sequence
        • What needs to come first?
        • Look for dependencies upon one another.
    • Divide into chunks of time
      • Help keeps you in flow and pick up where you left off when you sit down to work