Teens are overwhelmed, partly because they don’t yet have the skills to manage the unprecedented amount of stuff that enters their brains each day. – from LifeHacker.com
“Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.”
“You can do anything, but not everything.”
― David Allen, (GTD) Getting Things Done for Teens: Take Control of Your Life in a Distracting World
SUMMARY
This week was my birthday. I was very very grateful for making to 15 and everyone wishing a happy birthday. Also the present. I got much of my homework done.
CLASSROOM (THEORY & ANALYSIS)
The GTD process will be helpful personally so I don’t forget about assignments. I will be using a GTD system from now on. I am for now going to be using Trello as my GTD system.
LAB (THEORY PRACTICED)
Two GTD Maps: Basic and Detailed
- Detailed map by guccio@文房具社 icensed under CC BY-NC 2.0
- Basic map from BiggerPlate.com embedded below
GTD-based Trusted System
- A trusted system is your method for managing your tasks in a way that you consistently get things done
- Trello.com with a – GTD Template
STUDIO (CREATING MAPS)
- David Allen steps summarized
- “Very simple folks! …
- Just WRITE STUFF DOWN
- Decide the ACTIONS and OUTCOMES embedded in them
- Get yourself a MAP OF ALL THAT so you can step back and take a look at it.
- And then, basically, you USE THE MAP TO DECIDE, “OK, here’s the course that we’re going to go on.”
- You then LAUNCH the ‘ship’ on a trusted course in the short term, as well as on the long horizon that you’re moving on.
- And then, on a regular basis, you need to REASSESS, “OK, we need to take in NEW DATA, CLEANUP, RECALIBRATE, and REFOCUS for the next leg of the journey.”
- “Very simple folks! …
WHAT I LEARNED and PROBLEMS I SOLVED
What I learned is what a GTD system is. The GTD system is when I start to implant it to remind me about assignments I haven’t finished yet.