The Productivity Show #41 - Productivity on the Road
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Tony Goodson and Daryl Cook (GTD Buddies) talk about productivity or lack of it when you’re on the road for most of your working life. It’s about being inter-state with a Blackberry and laptop and still not being productive!
Dividing your life into 15min chunks or eating chocolate
Catching up on things you normally do from your desk or at home
Maintaining your energy levels whilst being away
Myers-Briggs styles for generating energy and productivity - Introvert/Perceiving v Extrovert/Judging
Laptops and Blackberrys on planes and trains. Who are these people? Are they the Extroverts?
Back at the hotel room - TV and Mini-Bar or Productivity?
Hotels with no mini-bar and TV to aid productivity!
Going back to paper based productivity
Contexts for being productive and breaking up a long list of actions
Putting a sub-list of tasks on your mobile to get done whilst on the move
Filing from the hotel room, or gather everything together from the start and file it all
How much do you have to file? Do you file at home or at the office when you’re travelling a lot
Not using folders on Outlook- It’s sometimes easier to find things in a single folder and use Microsoft Desktop or Google Desktop to search
Not using MindManager8 for mindmapping - GyroQ for capturing thoughts into a mindmap, Omnifocus for GTD on the Mac. Creating tasks from email
Getting a headset for your cordless phone - Handsfree and movement with good quality sound
15min chunking the day - How do you waste each 15mins! Allow yourself thinking time and reflection
Moving task reminders into a category list so you don’t have too many reminders. Categorise all your contacts so that you have sublists of all your contacts
Write the phone number of the person in your created task, so don’t have to look up their number and you have a summary list with numbers
Break the day in 4 quarters - Coach yourself in each quarter. A weekly review in each quarter of a day
What 4 books/pillars would you stick to? - A Whole New Mind, Life is a Verb, Zen and the Art of Making a Living, The Dharma Bums. The 4 Hour Work Week, Getting Things Done, Scott Adams, The Artist’s Way, Impro and The Theatre, 7 Habits! 6 Hats! Think and Grow Rich, How to Win Friends and Influence People, The Richest Man in Babylon.