Get-It-Done Guy’s 3 Bad Habits Successful People Break by Stever Robbins

Author:Stever Robbins
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781429925532
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin

Meeting notes

Using papier-mâché, form them into a likeness of the meeting facilitator, stick pins in each, then burn them.

Memos to read

Throw away any over six months old. Read the rest between 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. next Wednesday.

Tasty food

Wrinkle my nose and sniff. If it smells bad, throw it away. Otherwise, put it in “for kitchen” pile and then put all “for kitchen” items away today at 5 p.m. If any of the food wrinkles its nose back, throw it out no matter how it smells.

Then kick yourself into action and do it. I use paper organizing for e-mail, paper mail, sorting out books, dismantling piles that have outlived their usefulness (yes, I know which pile a given item is in, but that doesn’t mean I know everything in a given pile), straightening up a car, storing camping equipment, and matching up jobs and how they fit my many Zombie warriors. The simple trick of deferring the hard decisions to paper gives you the focus to organize in a snap. The organizing is easier, and all that time you used to spend trying to find stuff can now be spent doing something more deeply meaningful, like joining a wine-tasting club, or a scotch-tasting club, or a scotch-tape-testing club.

HOW TO QUICKLY ORGANIZE A MESS IN THE MIDST OF A PROJECT

As much as my ego doesn’t want to admit it, there will come a time where you won’t have followed my stellar advice on organizing and so you will find yourself trying to complete several urgent projects while sitting in the middle of a monumental mess created from the paperwork, books, folders, e-mail, snail mail, phone messages, and other items related to each project. Because said project needs to be completed tomorrow, you simply don’t have time to take my advice and do a thorough organizing job. But you can’t possibly get any work done when everything is so disorganized. The secret organizing weapon is simple: Filter.

Going through item by item and deciding what to do with it would take forever, and would burn up most of your mental energy. Fortunately, there’s a better way to grab just what you need. It relies on your brain’s little-known but very powerful superpower, filtering. You can filter things much more easily than you can triage and categorize. Filtering keeps your brain focused in one place even when you’re bombarded with chaos. It’s easy to use filtering to save the day!

Pile everything incoming in one big pile. Think of your first project, scan the pile, and pull out everything related to that project. For example, set your mental gears to the Feed Yelena’s Pet Boa While She’s on Vacation project. In moments, you can spot everything related to that project—a phone message from the vet, an e-mail reminding you of the feeding schedule, and a live white mouse to feed to the snake. (The mouse is easy to spot. Its box has a picture of a young girl holding the mouse gently, with the caption “Somebody loves me” on the side.

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