Totally agree with you Carl! I think this is one of the most common productivity problems of everyone. We could capture everything in our inboxes (email, todo list, notes app, physical inbox) BUT you need to process them and decide what and when to do it.
Thank you so much for this Carl, this is what I needed. So glad I found your channel. I've subscribed, followed & watched some of your videos for a while now (and enrolled in your amazing, simple and valuable C.O.D course) and I've always found helpful tips and golden nuggets to extract from them that improve how I approach certain things, so thank you again for this and keep up the amazing, helpful work.
Brillant video thanks , I have a backlog of 50 customer jobs to organise and book , struggling to organise myself as I am running my plumbing/heating business on my own , and the phone keep ringing emails and text keep coming in too. Ignoring it doesn't work unfortunately...could you direct me to some of your videos who will help my organisation ? many thanks
I'm not sure a video will help you here. There's a trade-off you are going to have to make. Either you make yourself available to answer the phone every time it rings and reduce your daily workload to accommodate the interruptions. Or you don't answer the phone every time it rings and increase your workload. Alternatively, you could hire a Virtual Assistant to take calls for you so you can focus on doing the work and then spend a little time at the end of the day allocating work for the next day. You are up against the laws of time and physics and you will never win that battle. You get 24 hours each day. You will never be able to change that.
Hi Carl, Amazing videos as always. I am really enjoying your paid courses in the “Pathway to A Productive Life” bundle. I wanted to ask you about deleting old notes/tasks/ideas. Some of these are marginally useful. But I find it difficult to delete them. I get joy from deleting them but when doing weekly review I end up just skipping over them. I end up with this giant “Life Reminders” notebook where I sometimes put these marginally useful ideas. Or projects that are really long in Todoist that contain marginally useful tasks that I feel guilty deleting. The result is longer weekly reviews. Also I find this demotivating as it is somehow energy draining. And yet often you think “This task/idea is marginally useful. Maybe one day it will be useful. What if I don’t think of it again?” Also putting them in SOMEDAY|MAYBE feels a bit like you are losing context of where they came from. Since you are taking them out of the project/area of focus and putting them in this general bin. Sometimes they also don’t feel like SOMEDAY|MAYBE because they are not really tasks, they could be just marginally useful ideas. How to be more brave to delete these? When to delete these? During weekly review? How to make this less draining and more obvious/straightforward? It would make me happy to have fewer of these but I don’t quite know how to get rid of them. Your videos/courses are amazing. Thank you.
Hi Lukasz, Thank you for your kind words. The Someday / Maybe folder is exactly what you use for these kind of ideas/tasks. Often when we collect an idea it seems to be brilliant and amazing. The problem is we don't have time to start it now. So, the best place to put it is the Someday / Maybe folder. Now you don't have to review this folder every week because it is just "someday/maybe", I check mine about once a month (usually the last Sunday in a month) and I usually delete a lot of ideas that, with the passing of time, now don't seem so brilliant or amazing. Never feel guilty about deleting these ideas. I've found if they really are something you want to do, then they will come back in the future anyway. Focus on the the here and now. That's the best advice I can give you.
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Totally agree with you Carl! I think this is one of the most common productivity problems of everyone. We could capture everything in our inboxes (email, todo list, notes app, physical inbox) BUT you need to process them and decide what and when to do it.
Thank you, Tiago. It is the backlog that creeps up on us and causes us the most problems.
Great points here! Thanks for the productivity lesson. Cheers!
Thank you, Adriana.
I've been enjoying your stuff. I heard about you on a GTD based forum on Reddit. Thanks a lot. Take care.
Thank you, Mr Michael. Very happy to hear you have enjoyed these videos. 🙏
Thank you so much for this Carl, this is what I needed. So glad I found your channel. I've subscribed, followed & watched some of your videos for a while now (and enrolled in your amazing, simple and valuable C.O.D course) and I've always found helpful tips and golden nuggets to extract from them that improve how I approach certain things, so thank you again for this and keep up the amazing, helpful work.
You're very welcome 😊 Thank you 🙏
Yup. You nailed it. Thanks!
Thank you, Aaron.
Brillant video thanks , I have a backlog of 50 customer jobs to organise and book , struggling to organise myself as I am running my plumbing/heating business on my own , and the phone keep ringing emails and text keep coming in too. Ignoring it doesn't work unfortunately...could you direct me to some of your videos who will help my organisation ? many thanks
I'm not sure a video will help you here. There's a trade-off you are going to have to make. Either you make yourself available to answer the phone every time it rings and reduce your daily workload to accommodate the interruptions. Or you don't answer the phone every time it rings and increase your workload.
Alternatively, you could hire a Virtual Assistant to take calls for you so you can focus on doing the work and then spend a little time at the end of the day allocating work for the next day.
You are up against the laws of time and physics and you will never win that battle. You get 24 hours each day. You will never be able to change that.
@@Carl_Pullein Carl you are right, there is only 24h in a day . I will have to think carefully and make a decision. thanks again
Well said!
Thank you, Dan. :-)
Hi Carl, Amazing videos as always. I am really enjoying your paid courses in the “Pathway to A Productive Life” bundle.
I wanted to ask you about deleting old notes/tasks/ideas. Some of these are marginally useful. But I find it difficult to delete them. I get joy from deleting them but when doing weekly review I end up just skipping over them. I end up with this giant “Life Reminders” notebook where I sometimes put these marginally useful ideas. Or projects that are really long in Todoist that contain marginally useful tasks that I feel guilty deleting.
The result is longer weekly reviews. Also I find this demotivating as it is somehow energy draining.
And yet often you think “This task/idea is marginally useful. Maybe one day it will be useful. What if I don’t think of it again?”
Also putting them in SOMEDAY|MAYBE feels a bit like you are losing context of where they came from. Since you are taking them out of the project/area of focus and putting them in this general bin. Sometimes they also don’t feel like SOMEDAY|MAYBE because they are not really tasks, they could be just marginally useful ideas.
How to be more brave to delete these? When to delete these? During weekly review? How to make this less draining and more obvious/straightforward? It would make me happy to have fewer of these but I don’t quite know how to get rid of them.
Your videos/courses are amazing. Thank you.
Hi Lukasz, Thank you for your kind words.
The Someday / Maybe folder is exactly what you use for these kind of ideas/tasks. Often when we collect an idea it seems to be brilliant and amazing. The problem is we don't have time to start it now. So, the best place to put it is the Someday / Maybe folder.
Now you don't have to review this folder every week because it is just "someday/maybe", I check mine about once a month (usually the last Sunday in a month) and I usually delete a lot of ideas that, with the passing of time, now don't seem so brilliant or amazing.
Never feel guilty about deleting these ideas. I've found if they really are something you want to do, then they will come back in the future anyway.
Focus on the the here and now. That's the best advice I can give you.
@@Carl_Pullein Thank you. That is great advice. Very helpful.
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Thank you, Divyansh.