In this article you will learn about a method used by companies such as IBM, Microsoft and Google so that you can learn how to achieve goals.
We want to cover a large number of projects and responsibilities because we always want more; and we believe we are in a position to do so. However, if we don’t have a method to achieve goals it will be very complicated.
They say that doing 2 tasks at the same time is doing 2 tasks wrong. But speaking of projects, this is not true if we make sure to boost our productivity.
Well-known companies like Microsoft, IBM, Evernote and Google; have relied on a method that allows them to achieve goals, known as Getting Things Done (GTD).
David Allen, author of the book Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress Free Productivity is the man behind GTD.
For him, much of the stress people feel is not because of everything they have to do; it is because they have not finished what they started. As a result of this he delimits the term “psychic RAM”.
What is psychic RAM?
Broadly speaking, in electronic devices such as a computer, smartphone, among others; RAM memory is responsible for storing data and instructions temporarily; in order to streamline all processes.
David makes a simile and gives rise to the “psychic RAM”; that is in charge of always keeping in mind all the tasks and projects that we have not yet finished.
Having unfulfilled tasks in our mind threatens our productivity. Since it distracts us when we are executing other tasks and it demotivates us to think that there is “much to do”. However, many of those tasks are simple things that we can remove from the pendings list; if we use the correct method.
How the GDT works
Initially, the GTD seeks that we gather in an “inbox” all the tasks that we have pending and filter them. This way we will really understand its relevance and we will be able to organize ourselves better.
In addition, the creation of the inbox allows us to dimension everything and really know what to do.
How to achieve goals with the GDT
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The GDT is a method that covers absolutely everything we need to know to organize our activities and monitor them.
In this article we seek to create awareness of all those easy tasks that we accumulate and end up being an unnecessary overload in our memory. So make the list and evacuate those tasks that do not require much time to complete!
This will allow debugging the inboxsee things more clearly and be more productive 🙂
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