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How to get things done?

How to get things done?

Getting Things Done, appropriately called the art of stress-free productivity, conceptualized by David Allen, contains the methodology to control the flow of your life's work.

Keywords: personal life, task management, productivity

How to get things done?

How to get everything done easier?

Learn how to get things done easier using this template and increase productivity in your team.

At first, note down all of the things you need to do. Group them into tasks that are actionable and non-actionable.

Do a weekly review to keep track of the completed tasks and the current tasks.

Sort your tasks into tasks that you will do and tasks that you will delegate.

Getting Things Done

Use this mind map to control the flow of your life’s work.

YES

If the answer is YES, then your follow up question should be
Can you do it in less than 2 minutes?

In less than 2 minutes?

If so, add here all the things you can do now (in the next 2 minutes) and do them!

Sort out your tasks, separate the ones you delegate from the ones that you defer.

Defer it

Choosing what to do

What element on the list, if completed, would affect the most things of importance in my life?

Next action

Organize by context

Organize your to-dos by context, so it will be easier to oversee all the things you need to do in a certain area.

#errands

#home

#office

#computer

#calls

Delegate it

This is still an action, but you will not be the one who needs to do it. Split this task into two parts.

Follow up

Make a follow-up task for yourself so you won't forget to check up on these requests.

Waiting for

Add all the requests you made to other persons to your 'waiting for' list.

Request

DO IT NOW!

Review

A weekly review is essential to keep everything running smoothly.

During this review, you can make adjustments or modifications.

Weekly

Keep track of how many tasks you have completed so far.

Current task

Maintain your focus by always knowing which are the tasks you currently have in progress.

Done tasks

Is it actionable?
NO

Usually not all the tasks are actionable at all.
Some of them can be deleted and there are a few ideas which you can keep for later revision, or you can create an action list for these to come back and review in 6 months or so.

Use the marks below to sort out the non-actionable items.

Trash

Reference

Some day maybe

....

All the things you need to do

“Your mind is for having ideas, and not for holding ideas”.

Capturing is done 24/7 from emails, calls, ideas that come from talking to others or ideas that come from your imagination and creativity.

Put all the things you have to do in this inbox.

"Stuff"

Why use a Mindomo mind map template?

Mind maps help you brainstorm, establish relationships between concepts, organize and generate ideas.

However, mind map templates offer an easier way to get started, as they are frameworks that contain information about a specific subject with guiding instructions. In essence, mind map templates ensure the structure that combines all the elements of a specific subject and serves as a starting point for your personal mind map. They are a resource for providing a practical solution to create a mind map on a particular topic, either for business or education.

Mindomo brings you smart mind map templates that allow you to function and think effortlessly.

A template has various functionalities:

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  • Default branch
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You can choose from a variety of mind map templates from Mindomo's business or educational accounts, or you can create your own mind map templates from scratch. Any mind map can be transformed into a mind map template map by adding further guiding notes to one of its topics.