#get things done

[youwontbelievethethingsiveread]

Can Vetinari please be in charge of all my meetings

[beegalactica]

hot girl tips to be more productive

With a million things to do, where do we find the time? Sometimes it can be so easy to just procrastinate, not do your work and keep pushing it back till it's too late. Let's not do that anymore.

5-minute rule - start small. If you've been putting something off for a long time, trying to commit 1 hour to it can be challenging. You can't do a marathon without a warm-up first! Could you set a timer for 5 minutes to do that task? After 5 minutes if you want to continue, go for it; if you don't, that's okay, because at least you've done 5 minutes today, which is better than 0. Tomorrow or later in the day, try to challenge yourself to do 7 minutes this time, then 10, then 15, and you will get into that rhythm.

Eliminate distractions - it's all because of that damn phone 🙄 but seriously, tech and social media can have such a tight grip over our productivity and our attention. If you cannot control your usage, set app timers that lock the app after you use it for a certain amount of time or delete the app. I've been using a minimalist phone launcher called 'OLauncher' that removes all my icons and makes me manually have to type and search for the app. In the time it takes me to search for the app, I get to ask myself, "What am I looking for? Do I need to use it for something specific or do I just want to scroll?"

Schedule properly - note down all your commitments and non-negotiables in an app like Google Calendar and make sure all your big events are displayed there. Some people can fall into the habit of planning every second of their day, but I instead delegate a few tasks to each day and give myself any time within the day to complete them, the important thing being not when I do them, but that I do them in the end.

Write to-do lists - now this doesn't just mean in-app lists, which are very useful. Physically write them out. I use a scrap piece of paper and I write: "Today I WILL..." and then list all the things I want to get done. Having it written down helps me commit to it more and the feeling of ticking it is so satisfying.

Know your WHY - Why are you doing this? Why do you want to be more productive? Why do you want to study more? Always look at the bigger picture. Where do you want to be and how will your productivity help you get there?

Celebrate your wins - whether you completed all the things on your to-do list or just one, be proud of it. Some days, you will feel super motivated and fly through all your tasks, and other days you just want to stay in bed and do nothing. Making an effort is the first step to your success.

No matter whether your goal is to complete a project, get good grades, get into the school of your dreams, or just get your work out of the way so you can focus on other things, tackle it little by little. Just 20 minutes every day for a week is better than trying to do 140 minutes worth of work on the last day.

[bitsofshanshine]

Get Things Done (GTD) Notion Template

Introducing Get Things Done — a one-page Notion template designed to help you take control of your day, optimize your workflow, and accomplish your goals with ease.

This is the template that will actually works for you! Get rid of procrastination by focusing on your priority tasks with a clean, minimalist and clutter-free workspace.

Break down your tasks into actionable steps, set priorities, and track progress all in one page. Whether it's daily, weekly, or monthly goals, this template helps you set clear objectives and provides the tools to keep you on track. Celebrate your wins and stay motivated as you watch your productivity journal fill up.

✿ What's Inside? ✿

Today’s Goals — Write down your daily tasks and check it off easily.

Weekly Priorities — Set clear objectives on which aspect you want to focus on the week.

Reminders — Keep you remind of the little essential things.

Monthly Goals — Never lose sight of the big picture of your goals while keep progressing.

Productivity Journal — Track your daily tasks, monitor your productive days, and see the impact of consistency over time.

Important Links — Keep the important link and easily find it anytime you need.

Quick Notes — Write down any ideas that come to your mind.

Time-blocking Schedule — Allocate specific blocks of time to different tasks. Whether it's deep work, meetings, or personal time, this feature helps you maintain focus and avoid multitasking.

Pomodoro Planner — This feature allows you to break your work into 50/25-minute focused sessions, followed by short breaks to recharge. Track your completed sessions, manage your time effectively, and maintain a balanced approach to productivity.

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[spacedadsupport]

Jean-Luc Picard @SpaceDadSupport The things you imagine that you cannot do well enough are the same things that other people do poorly all the time without concern. Do things. Get things done. You need not be perfect at most things. 4:33 PM · May 15, 2024

[random-xpressions]

One of the signs of overthinking is inaction. You'll be so inside your head that you won't ever be able to step out into the concrete world. The mind functions as a processor and it only needs to do a certain set of mental activities that will ignite the entire body like analysis, assessment, calculation, foresight, determination. If you overload it with anything more especially excessive hypothesis, then the only possible outcome is a stressed out mind with almost zero productivity. So stop overthinking and dive straight into action - wisdom in its entirety is in the doing...

Random Xpressions

[bluepurpleviolatte]

''…it’s not motivation that’s lacking from the unproductive person, or the ability to order their lives (when motivated to do so). Often it’s simply a resistance to formalized – imposed – structure. To those with ADD characteristics, such impositions feel abnormal: like a mental imprisonment. In fact, many can be thrown (rather than helped) by organizational aids such as a to-do list or daily plan or appointment book. They become just another barrier – something else banging on their unconscious door as a reminder of their ‘deficit’. As we plot our path towards productivity, therefore, we need to remain acutely aware of this. Formal structures imposed upon us may simply build our resistance to organization. We have to ensure they’re our structures – suited to our needs – and aimed at securing our goals.''

-Robert Kelsey, Get Things Done

[jasmineaxd]

With this post I want to announce a change in my blog :

Since our summer holidays are over and school is going to start again, I want to be productive and stay motivated for this school year. I've seen a couple of these "productivity challenges" here on tumblr and I think this is a great idea to stay motivated and focus on the important things. I'll start the "100 days of productivity - challenge" tommorow (on the first day of school).

[mrsmarpels]

Here is my Notion Dashboard for inspiration 🙃

I've been using this daily for a little over a year now. I can access all important areas and pages with just a few clicks using the various shortcuts.

Construction:

Get Things Done: Weekly overview of upcoming tasks and appointments

Menu: Important links structured by area

The Brain: Is a quick access to my second brain which I have integrated. I can add new notes using this shortcut or access all content and search for notes using the board view.

Make it Great: Here I summarize everything that is relevant to my personal development. This includes achievements and goals.

Journal: Quick entry for a 5-year journal - One Line A Day

Which areas and functions have you integrated into your Notion dashboard?

[jupijitter]

Aggretsuko Related Sketches

[gyokusai]

Motivational Venn Diagram Source: Attribution decay.

[noodles-and-tea]

Our hextech dream….

[nighthawkes]

I must sleep. Sleep is the mind-healer. Sleep is the big-life that brings total ability to fucking do anything. I will face my bed. I will permit the blankie to pass over me and snores to pass through me. And when sleep has gone past I will turn the outer eye to greet the new morning. When the sleep has gone there will be everything. Energy and will to live will remain.

[jazzeria]

Supporting someone through grief

For reasons, I'm revisiting things I wrote around the time my father died (several years ago, not recently), and found a post.

(Note: parts of the original post are highly personal, so I'm not linking it here in this post, which I'm hoping will be more general, be used by more people.)

It included a list of things people could do that would actually help--because lots of people said, "Let me know if there's anything I can do." But I didn't trust those offers. And at the time, those offers felt more like a burden than help ("Did they actually mean it?" and "What help are they in a good position to actually provide?" etc)

What I wanted (needed?) was to be offered specific tasks that I could simply say Yes/No to.

So I came up with a list--a job board, hoping people would pick a job, could pick a task they honestly and genuinely felt they could do, and wanted to do for me.

Text from the above images follows after the break.

Note: In the text below, I put two green stars (**) to indicate the green text from the slides (because making the text green here might reduce contrast and therefore readability). The green text is meant to highlight concrete, actionable things.

Supporting someone through grief

An incomplete list by Charlie, and about Charlie, but hopefully also useful for other people

Background

When my father died, lots of people said, “Let me know if there's anything I can do to help.”

I didn't trust those offers.

And at the time, they felt more like a burden

“Did they actually mean it?”

“What help are they in a good position to actually provide?" and, “What if I ask and then they say no?”

What I wanted needed was to be offered specific tasks, that I could say Yes/No to.

So I came up with a list--a job board, hoping people would pick a job they honestly and genuinely felt they could do, and wanted to do for me.

Generally, here’s how that list went…

Extra context and disclaimer

I was a university student at the time, money was tight.

I was in poor mental health, because recovery after an injury wasn’t going as planned.

I was staying at a friend’s place, eating his food, using his utilities, taking his space. I felt guilty about that.

The friend thought he was my boyfriend.

We were in the middle of a “breakup” and me leaving.

The death and funeral prep interrupted that.

…All this is to say that

People never die when it’s “convenient”, there’s always other stuff going on; and

Please remember that, although I’ve tried to make it more general now, this list was conceived during my extremely specific situation.

1. Feed Me

Provide me meals and/or snacks that require minimal preparation or effort to eat.

Even better if I don’t have to worry about washing, storing, and remembering to return containers.

This lets me not worry about cooking, and the nourishment keeps me useful

(because I still have things to do)

** Ask me, “Can I drop off this casserole [etc] tonight?”

Or even, “Will someone be home when I drop this off tonight?”

2. Do an emotional task

Help me by doing a task that for you might be simple labour or simple information processing, but which is emotionally laborious for me. 

** Ask me (or find out) what are some tasks that I have to do. And if they sound emotionally labourious for me but not for you, offer to do that labour because it’s less emotional for you.

(In my case, it was sorting a pile of photos, then scanning them. The photos would be used at the funeral.)

3. Facilitate an emotional task

Help by doing something that makes it easier for me to the emotional task.

(In my case, I had a slow computer and was asking to borrow someone's faster computer, for scanning the aforementioned photos)

4. Take my roommate out

Offer to distract and/or care for my roommate

Give me alone time at home

(I wanted alone time at home, but didn’t know how to ask for it. Even if I did know, I would’ve felt bad asking for it, asking for someone to take my roommate out for a meal that I normally would’ve cooked, or provide the company I felt obligated to provide.)

** Ask me, “Can I take [roommate] out tonight?”, or ask my roommate directly to go out with you.

5. Let me grieve

I am freaked out right now and will probably say or do weird things while I process stuff. 

** Be a safe space for me to say or do weird things and process my stuff. 

6. ** Reassure me

…that grieving is a legitimate thing to spend time on

(I felt guilty for “wasting” time that I could've instead spent being “productive”, sorting out funereal preparations.)

…that whatever I’m feeling is probably a reasonable thing to feel right now

(I don’t know about “normal”, but knowing that my feelings were a “reasonable” response to events, kinda helped)

7.  Continued support

Offer to continue supporting me, then do it.

(I think people had this idea that the One Big Thing I had to do, was funereal preparations and the funeral itself. But actually, there was more afterward, worse afterward. I feared people would only be there up to the funeral, that nobody would help with the other, personal and highly me-specific things that I needed help with.) 

** Find out what else I’ve got going on, that I’m no longer in the best shape to handle myself.  And after the funeral (or whatever seems like the One Big Thing), offer to help with that.

8.  Do an activity with me

Partly this is for distraction.

But largely, your company and this activity are an affirmation of life. 

Do a physical activity with me. 

** Take me for a walk, a swim, a bike ride, bowling, to the gym, …

Do an activity with me where I can see that I can affect real, physical things—can clearly see the consequences of things I do—and thus be reminded that I’m still alive. 

** We can set up dominoes, play Jenga, bake a cake together, do crafting, …

[princessoftheroad]

Managing time might seem like a simple task, but if we’re honest, it’s something we all struggle with. We’ve all said, 'I know how to manage time,' but if we really think about it, how often do we find ourselves overwhelmed, scrambling to meet deadlines, or juggling too many things at once?

Here’s the truth: time management isn’t just about checking off a to-do list. It’s about mastering strategy, understanding your priorities, and creating a sustainable routine that works for you. A course on time management isn’t a waste of time—it’s an investment in your future. It helps you break old habits, learn new tools, and discover efficient ways to focus, plan, and execute.

Imagine how much more you could accomplish if you had the right strategies in place. It’s not about being busy—it’s about being productive and intentional with the time you have. So, why not take the step to finally level up your time management skills? Trust me, it’s worth it!

[lazylittledragon]

some domestic shadowlachs <33

[bluepurpleviolatte]

''Unfortunately...the true reasons for cluttering are more to do with deep feelings of insecurity. Because we feel we deserve no better, we cling to the things we have – including relationships. Or we inwardly convince ourselves that these things are irreplaceable.''

– Robert Kelsey, Get Things Done