Tag: “Decision Making”

Highly efficient people know when they have to start a task and when they have to wait. To be a great performer you need to learn to listen to that inner voice that tells you to wait.

What should I do next? That is the big question, and knowing the answer is one of the secrets to keep your business under control while you progress towards your goals. Any self-respecting GTD application, including FacileThings, allows you to filter your actions by the energy level, the context and the time needed to get them done, so you can obtain a reduced list of potential next actions. However, the power is not in the tool, but in the work and reflection you made ​​about “what you wanted to do and where you wanted to go.”

Trying to do things as best as possible is a very commendable attitude in most cases. As great professionals, we strive for perfection in everything we do. But by definition, true perfection is never actually achieved, there is always a small defect or error somewhere.

You have managed to set up and assimilate a personal productivity system that works for you. Congratulations, that is not easy. Despite it, you are aware that, in many cases, you are not performing well. You are realizing that, in order to perform certain tasks, you need much more time than you had planned.

Many people think that a personal productivity system consists of some software and/or a calendar and/or an ordered to-do list and/or a series of notes or documents relating to all this. However, this is nothing more than the physical, tangible part — the least important — of a personal productivity system.