Future | Vision | Strategy
You need the time and mental space to be able to focus on your long term goals and visoins. Also, to recognize opportunities you need to be able to step back from your daily grind.
It’s a paradox: If you want to get more done, you schould schedule less.
You probably know about agile development. Have you ever thought about applying the principles of agile software development to your personal productivity system? Here’s how you can do it and what you can learn from the best practices of software development – no matter what you do.
Being reliable to follow-up on task, ideas and people can make the difference in realizing your goals and building good relationships. This system is bullet proof.
Productive habits are vital to your long-term success and wellbeing. The key is to keep habits alive and strengthem them daily.
How can you become more agile in your individual work? Learning from agile teams, you can adapt the concept of iterations on a personal level.
A vision is not a plan. Be bold in your vision. You might be surprised what you can achieve. At the same time be realistic in your short term goals to keep progress constant.
Progress is best achieved in small intense sprints. Not only in teams, but on an individual level as well.
A tickler file is a great tool. It can be at the center of your getting things done system and bring your productivity to a whole new level.
A regular information diet should be natural to every striving performer.
Deep work. A big word. Everybody working in creative or analytic roles needs to achieve deep work it daily. Doing so is easier said than done as distractions get in our way.