Tag: “Self-Improvement”

Regardless of the system you use to manage your projects and tasks, both professional and personal, there is something that is rarely discussed when talking about personal productivity, and yet is the foundation of any healthy productive behavior: the strategic allocation of your time.

One of the reasons GTD has achieved great recognition as a personal productivity system is that it doesn’t reduce our daily activity to a simple set of tasks to be marked as done. That’s oversimplified. Although being productive is about getting more done with as little effort as possible, we aren’t machines. We’re human beings, and our actions must respond to something deeper.

There is no doubt that time management has acquired great relevance in our society in recent decades. The feeling of “having too much to do and not enough time available” is not unfamiliar to almost anyone. We have come to realize that time is a very valuable resource and that, in order to be efficient, we need to make the best use of it, seeking the best possible result with the least possible effort.

The pandemic has accelerated some changes that were already taking place in society, albeit in a much slower way. Companies have had to digitize themselves by leaps and bounds to allow their employees to work from home, and workers have learned another way of living that, with its pros and cons, allows them to better reconcile work with their personal lives.

These laws, which you have probably heard before on more than one occasion, were born in environments as diverse as economics, statistics or physics, but they can be applied in a variety of situations and are especially relevant to personal productivity. If you keep them in mind and are able to manage them when undertaking your tasks, you will be able to achieve better results with less effort. Let’s go over them.