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Modern Mentor

521 - To-Do List Essentials: How to Recruit Your Subconscious Mind

Modern Mentor

Macmillan Holdings, LLC

Careers, Business, Management

4.3720 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2018

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Time management expert Mark Forster's Fast Final Version Plus will help you manage your task list to a tee. Read the transcript at https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/productivity/time-management/to-do-list-essentials-how-to-recruit-your-subconscious-mind Check out all the Quick and Dirty Tips shows: www.quickanddirtytips.com/podcasts FOLLOW GET-IT-DONE GUY Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GetItDoneGuy Twitter: https://twitter.com/GetItDoneGuy

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0:00.0

This is Steveer Robbins. Welcome to the Get It Done Guys, quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

0:09.2

The wonderful thing about technology is that it gives us the illusion that we can do everything.

0:14.5

So we try. And then we get overwhelmed. And then we suffer severe cognitive decline, physical stress, and we start to pull our

0:21.5

hair out. It may be a good way to save on barbershop visits, but it isn't great for quality of life,

0:26.7

except, of course, for our corporate overlords who buy Lapis-Lazuli yachts with all of the profits

0:31.6

from our amazing productivity. What we can do, however, is we can manage the overwhelm so that it

0:37.3

becomes doable.

0:38.3

You'll have to pay for haircuts again, but it will be worth it.

0:42.3

For example, David Allen's Getting Things Done System is a great way to manage stuff when it comes into your life.

0:47.3

It turns everything into task lists. For me, however, those task lists quickly turn to chaos.

0:53.3

Fortunately, there's a better way.

0:56.0

Just keep one long list of tasks and have a really good way to decide what to do next.

1:00.9

My favorite system for managing a gazillion tasks was created by Mark Forster. That's F-O-R-S-T-E-R.

1:06.9

I think he's the best productivity mind I've ever encountered. I've been a big follower of his

1:10.5

since the Get Itdone guy began.

1:13.4

Mark is designed probably a dozen different systems for recording and doing tasks,

1:17.3

and he starts with a different attitude on task management.

1:20.6

He scoffs at the idea of ranking things according to priority,

1:24.1

and he's British, so when he scoffs, it sounds great. Instead, he uses the psychology

1:30.8

around the interplay between your conscious and unconscious minds to decide what to do next.

1:35.1

My favorite system of his is fast, final version perfected, or FFVP for short. He's had several

1:41.6

things that were final or ultimate, so you can take that part with a grain of salt.

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