Really ‘Get Stuff Done’.

No matter how much we all want to love it, I’m sure most of us know how flawed ‘GTD’ is. It’s essentially busy work to keep us from doing busy work, and all it has ever done for me is make my life harder and more complicated. That is not to say many of the concepts in the system are great, cause they are and if you’ve been following the productivity blog circuit for a while, you will know how many others have just taken the things that they like from the system and created their own versions. See ZenHabit’s ‘Zen To Done’.

Because we all know about the ‘Myth of Multitasking’, I personally follow a very simple set of rules, well 1 rule. I map out no more than 5 of the major things (usually only 3) I want to accomplish in a given day and I do them, one at a time, until they are DONE. Because my day job is in design and web development and I’m a blogger, most of my tasks are computer and internet related, so as I mentioned in a previous post, my favorite web app to manage my to-do list is ‘NowDoThis’. Otherwise, a simple pen and paper work just fine. We all have alot more than 5 things that need to get done in any given day, but this list is designed to cover the major things. The stuff that will make you feel accomplished at the end of the day when you have completed them all.

‘5 Things a Day’ is simple and has helped me be more productive than ever before, while having more time for the other things I want to do in my life. Sounds way to easy, I know. But try it for a week or 2. You’ll be surprised how much you actually get done in a single week.