Baby Steps to Get Control [Cal Newport]

<p>Listen to Deep Questions: <a href="https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/deep-questions/ep-184-replay-the-y_ucZrt6CDB/">https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/deep-questions/ep-184-replay-the-y_ucZrt6CDB/</a></p><ol> <li> <strong>Time Block Plan </strong>- give every minute a job</li> <li> <strong>Setup Task Boards</strong> - keep track of every task and their status<ol> <li>this week</li> <li>ambiguous</li> <li>major projects</li> <li>waiting to hear back</li> </ol> </li> <li> <strong>Full Capture</strong> - by end of day - every obligation is out of head, in a trusted system<ol> <li>Email inbox</li> <li>Calendar</li> <li>Task Board</li> </ol> </li> <li> <strong>Weekly Plan</strong> - at beginning of each week, build plan for week<ol> <li>block time for critical things</li> <li>interfaces with daily Time Block Plan</li> </ol> </li> <li> <strong>Strategic Plan</strong><ol> <li>The Vision for your professional life (for quarter)</li> <li>Vision interacts with weekly plan</li> </ol> </li> <li> <strong>Automate and Eliminate</strong><ol> <li>reduce amounts of context switches</li> <li>batch stuff, handing off, outsourcing</li> <li>say no, leave, step away</li> </ol> </li> <li> <strong>Go for it</strong><ol><li>take really ambitious projects, big swings</li></ol> </li> </ol>