Lesson: How to hack your to-do list/ExerciseD1

Listening Exercise

Watch the video and complete the text according to what you can understand. - So I was with David Allen of the book "Getting Things Done" about how to be more and he asked me: D: Why do you keep a calendar? - Because if I don't I'll where I'm supposed to be and when. D: That's right. Your head can't handle that complexity. And, if you the complexity of your calendar, try the complexity of the of your life, if your calendar manages 3 to 4 percent of your commitments and what you actually to keep track of. - The other 96 percent David says are like our goals, our projects, our to do list. What we need at the , that phone call we need to make, all these things we just let our , our psyche try to keep track of. D: The psyche actually sucks as a . It'll remind you of stuff that you can't do at 3 o'clock in the , which is not very bright. If that were just one thing that'd be bad but multiply that by about a thousand and realize buzz that is going on in everybody's head. - So David we need a new system that captures that buzz and quiets your brain. The first in this system is to get written down. D: So capturing it that's a critical step. That is I've got to identify those things that are potentially meaningful otherwise my psyche is gonna go, don’t forget, don’t forget, don’t forget… and this little is gonna start to inside my head. - But just writing things down isn’t enough because... D: If you look at most people's to do list you see things Mom or bank. But you have to it to the next step, so now you've got to clarify what's the outcome I'm committed to. And then you say, what does doing look like and where does it , so what’s the very next about Mom’s birthday, what’s the very next action about the bank, is that a call to make, is that to the web to find out something. The third thing you need to do is you need to park the result, otherwise it goes in my psyche. - The final two steps David says are to review those lists that you , those parking lots for your tasks and your projects and , of course, to do them. D: The big here about getting things done is it's not about getting things done. I am now free and in my head to let my attention go where it wants to go or where I want to it. It’s about being appropriately engaged with your . - And once you stop trying to keep all of those tasks and projects in your and you quiet the jabbering monkeys, you’ll find that you have increased capacity to think and be .