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🗓️ 26 November 2016
⏱️ 24 minutes
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As a professional, at any given time, you probably have 150-220 action items and 30-100 projects on your plate. That’s a lot – in fact too much – to keep in your head. Your brain, it turns out, is a terrible office! Fortunately, with a little help you can build an external brain that’s designed to simplify your complicated life. In this RBI Extra, we get down to GTD basics with David Allen’s 5 steps to help you get your “stuff” under control.
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0:00.0 | It's the Rule Breaker Investing Podcast with Motley Full Co-founder David Gardner. |
0:07.0 | And welcome back to Rule Breaker Investing. |
0:12.0 | It's an extra. It's an extra for your Thanksgiving weekend. |
0:15.4 | Happy Thanksgiving wherever you are. |
0:17.5 | And I'm thanking David Allen again for joining with us |
0:20.9 | and laying out some of his wonderful getting things done framework. |
0:25.0 | And David, I just want to spot, I want to spot you up with a few of the things, the tropes, the steps, the tips that I've picked up from you and just have you share those |
0:34.4 | with Rule Breaker investing listeners. Now there's no question that a lot of us are |
0:38.2 | going to know GTD but this is at least to start with this is for people who don't know the framework, don't know how you think, |
0:44.6 | but have been interested by what they heard from you earlier this week. |
0:47.6 | So let me start with just a simple five letter word to cue you up, because how you think about this word I think is |
0:54.9 | really helpful for us and the word is stuff. Yeah that's such a great word. |
1:01.0 | It's all the things that have landed somehow in your ecosystem and your |
1:06.4 | psyche and in your world about which you know there's something you might would |
1:12.4 | could should |
1:13.3 | ought to decide or do about it, but you haven't done that yet. |
1:17.0 | So it's lying around. |
1:18.9 | So it's all that, all those emails that you, |
1:21.2 | it's all the hush text. you know you pick up you open an |
1:24.8 | email and you go and you close it back up again that's that's that's stuff you know |
1:32.0 | so it's anything lying around that doesn't belong there permanently that is in motion, but it's not in motion. |
1:38.0 | So all those things sitting on your desk that you still need to decide or do something about that are not anyway it's all of that |
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