Teens are overwhelmed, partly because they don’t yet have the skills to manage the unprecedented amount of stuff that enters their brains each day. – from LifeHacker.com
“Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.”
“You can do anything, but not everything.”
― David Allen, (GTD) Getting Things Done for Teens: Take Control of Your Life in a Distracting World
SUMMARY
- This week was alright, but I spent a lot of the week doing a lot of other work for other classes. This blog post required a decent amount of my time for work and I did learn some interesting and important things.
CLASSROOM (THEORY & ANALYSIS)
You are going to learn to develop your own version of David Allen’s Getting Things Done (GTD) process in this ‘room.’
After watching these three videos I came out of it realizing some things about organization. The thing I really took away from this, and it might sound a bit simple, was how serious and important organization can be. There was a lot more to these videos than how organization as important, but that’s what really stood out to me, and I hope it helps me now that I have a more clear concept of it.
LAB (THEORY PRACTICED)
- Set a timer
- Spend 15 minutes in this ‘room’
- Rewatch David explain ‘Maps’ from 19:57 to 21:16 of the video
Examine Two GTD Maps: Basic and Detailed
- Detailed map by guccio@文房具社 icensed under CC BY-NC 2.0
- Basic map from BiggerPlate.com embedded below
WHAT I LEARNED and PROBLEMS I SOLVED
This week I learned a lot. At times I felt very overwhelmed from all of the work in this blog post, but I was still able to get something out of it. There were many videos that had a bunch of info in them that was important, but I don’t remember a lot of the stuff.
The problem I solved this week was having to do with my time and organization, thanks to the GTD. I now feel more confident and sure of my self to complete assignments on time. This week is an exception because I had more work than I’ve ever had so far this year. I’m hoping that everything I learned about organization sticks with me, and I improve from it.