Film – Week 10 – GTD – Getting Things Done – Part 2

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

• Hanged out with Friends for the first time in a while.

PRACTICE ROOM (TUTORIALS)

CLASSROOM (THEORY & ANALYSIS)

You are going to learn to develop your own version of David Allen’s Getting Things Done (GTD) process in this ‘room.’

•  The Art of Stress-Free Productivity: David Allen 
  • Getting Things Done (GTD) by David Allen – Animated Book Summary And Review
  • Help Teens De-Stress With These ‘Getting Things Done’ Hacks
  • The key to less stress, is organization, making lists, and keeping your priorities straight. Less important and easy tasks or thoughts should be done first and larger more complicated tasks should be planned out, scheduled and done with a lot of thought. If you don’t do small tasks they could build up and lead to stress and if you immediately do big tasks you can be overwhelmed.

LAB (THEORY PRACTICED)

• 19:57 to 21:16 of the video

Examine Two GTD Maps: Basic and Detailed

1. Detailed map by guccio@文房具社 icensed under CC BY-NC 2.0
2. Basic map from BiggerPlate.com embedded below

GTD-based Trusted System

• Examine and pick a trusted system from the 4 options listed below to ‘capture’ your work
  • A trusted system is your method for managing your tasks in a way that you consistently get things done

1. Trello.com with a – GTD Template
   • We use Trello in this class to manage group projects
     • You will create a Trello account a few weeks from now regardless
     • You might want to start now
   • We start using Trello in the second semester
   • Watch Mr. Le Duc Creating a Trello Account and Add GTD Template Tutorial (3:45)
   • You can get the free Trello app at the Apple Store or Google Play
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2. Your phone
3. Paper and pen or pencil
4. Examine LifeHacker.com’s GTD Resources
   • Try a To-Do List That Lives in Your Tabs

OUTSIDE (PRODUCTIVITY & THE BRAIN)

• I saw a deer outside

WHAT I LEARNED and PROBLEMS I SOLVED

• I did my geometry homework and I learned the concepts pretty well