Productivity

What will it look like for me to feel caught up?  Prioritizing by answering that question.

Saving String

What’s that?

Gretchen Rubin wrote:

“Try This at Home: Save string — which is a phrase from journalism that means, find ways to save your little bits of ideas. To read more about choreographer Twyla Tharp’s process, look in The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life. Woody Allen discusses his method saving string in this Wall Street Journal interview.” (from Gretchen Rubin.com, Saving String Idea)

For me, that means recording it in my Bullet Journal, or in Evernote, or in OneNote or in my Quiet Time Journal, depending upon the type of “string.”  Obviously, this is not the most organized method for saving string; I feel like I need a Master Plan for storing it in one place.  Yet, I am not always in the same location with access to the same medium at all times.  More thought needs to go into this, but at present, in the GTD vernacular, for the sake of “closing a loop,” I’m deciding to record as much as possible in my BuJo, then re-record in the other locations as needed.  Whew!  For now, that will work.  Like all workflow, it is a journey/process to figure out what works in each season.

Do you save string?  What collection method or methods do you employ?

~organizing for productivity, on the Indiana prairie

Tracking email conversations

In an earlier post, I listed some things that I do not record in my Bullet Journal, one of which is emails, generally speaking. Do you find yourself puzzling over what to do with emails after you read them? I am sometimes so busy that the best I can do is to read only the emails that are critical that specific day.  Eventually my inboxes would overflow into overwhelm inside of me. Not only did I not know what to do with the emails, I had no guidelines for how to decide what to do with them.

On Paul Manwaring’s The Importance Of Administration

“. . .God thinks highly of this ministry to use these particular words. They show us that when administrators steer towards a vision, they map the best course to travel; calculate risk; manage and steward resources; and plan and strategize. They are empowered to make the necessary decisions required in order to arrive at the destination. In short, the biblical gift of administration covers a whole range of aspects of government, leadership and management.