Reading notes: The art of 3--balance work and life

Reading notes: The art of 3--balance work and life

This "Fix 3" is on the plane back and forth in Shanghai to see half, came back slowly after reading. Feel this book to "Get 1" thinking more clearly, with a picture can be expressed in the outline structure of the article.

First three chapters

This paper describes the GTD phenomenon, why it is useful, the principle of GTD, 3 models, ideological basis, steps, self-management matrix.

The main reason for GTD's usefulness is that when one thing is always in your head, you always think about it when doing anything, causing distractions, distractions, and stress, and when you write it down, the pressure is greatly reduced.

Three GTD models: Mastering the workflow, natural planning, and attention level.

The horizontal axis of the control process is divided into five stages: capturing, clarifying meaning, organizing, pondering and executing.

The level of attention is the 6 heights mentioned in "1", corresponding to the longitudinal axis (angle of view), from the bottom up is the action, the project, the scope of responsibility (may be the reason for translation, the original book is written on the level of attention), objectives, vision, purpose principles, such as six heights.

The natural plan is the vertical planning of a project called "1", which is divided into five steps: goal meaning, results, brainstorming, organizing and clarifying the next step. "Fix 3" in the Translation and "Do 1" in the not quite the same, I feel or the 1th book translation is accurate.

In the 3rd chapter of the self-management matrix, four-quadrant method is used to illustrate the control and the perspective of the 4 kinds of people to grasp good and bad.

Fourth Chapter capture

The previous "Get 1" in the "collection" changed to "capture", collect feeling a little passive meaning, and capture seems to have some more active meaning, the most useful is the appendix provides a list of tips for capturing this step. some young people reject GTD for less than a few things, but in fact, after deep capture, work and life are quite a lot of things that must be captured and recorded in the system.

The fifth chapter clarifies the meaning

The name of this step from "Take 1" in the "processing" changed to "clear meaning", become the most easy to understand, has been the "1" in the processing and collation of mixed, there may be translation reasons, there are not deep understanding of the reasons. The key questions to answer in this step are:

Can you take action on this matter?

If you need to take action, consider these 2 questions:

What is the result of my hope?

What should I do next?

If no action is required, it is categorized as "junk", "future possible", and "reference" in three categories, corresponding to the three items on the right side of (the famous GTD workflow flowchart).

The sixth chapter organizes the reorganization

Subdivide the actions that can be performed, execute them immediately after 2 minutes, or delegate to others, set up a waiting state, put on a schedule for a date, and then divide a number of situations into actions that are completed as soon as possible. All this is similar to "Get 1", but it provides a sort of reference in the book.

Seventh chapter Ponder Reflection

"Get 1" is called Review Review, in the appendix of the book gives a weekly review of the list:

Keep it fresh .

Collection of scattered documents and materials

Collect the accumulated business cards, receipts and complex paper materials and put them in the work basket.

Empty the work basket

Clean up paper materials, logs, meeting minutes, voicemail, messages, and emails to be processed.

Clear the brain.

Write down and process any new "project", "Action", "Wait", "future/Maybe" lists that are not captured.

keep up to date

View action list

Tick off the completed project. Review the information and make a note of the next action.

View a calendar transaction over the past

Check out the past calendar transactions, look for legacy actions and references, and move them to a new page in the timeline.

View Upcoming Calendar Transactions

View Upcoming calendar transactions (both long-term and short-term) to capture the actions they cause.

View the wait list

Record actions that should be followed up. Tick off a transaction that has received a reply.

View a list of items (major outcomes)

Evaluate the status of the project, objectives and results one by one, Luo each project is executing the current action. Overview of project plans, supporting materials, and other materials at hand to list new "action", "Finish", "Wait" reminders.

View the relevant table

Used to prompt a new action.

Play Creative

View the "Future/Maybe" list

Review the currently available projects and transfer them to the Projects list. Tick off items that are no longer of interest.

Play the creative, embody the courage

Does your system add novelty, cunning, madness, adventure, ingenuity, and thought-provoking ideas?

Eighth chapter participation

The key question for this step is "what's the next move?" ”。

Nineth. GTD applied to work and life

The example of "Gracie's Garden" illustrates the 5 main processes.

10th Chapter Pendulum Perspective

After gaining control, the higher level is the right angle of view. When all the readings are collected, only 6 levels of thought can be found to find out which books are actually read. These 6 levels are "Next steps", "projects" (10,000 feet), "Terms of reference" (20,000 feet), "long and short term goals" (30,000 feet), "vision" (40,000 feet), "Purpose and principles" (50,000 feet).

Chapter 11th Next Steps

No matter how big your progress is, you have to sink in and put them into action.

Chapter 12th Project

The basic question to answer is: What do I have to accomplish?

Chapter 13th Scope of liability

The basic question to answer is: what do I need to maintain?

The 14th chapter aims

The basic question to answer is: What do I want to accomplish in the next year or two?

15th Chapter Vision

The basic question to answer is: what is the long-term success and how does it look, how it sounds and how it feels? What is your goal for 3-5 years?

The purpose and principles of the 16th chapter

The basic question to answer is: why am I the way I am now? How did I become the way I am?

Purpose provides the ultimate goal and direction of survival, the principle embodies the life on the road to always adhere to the core values.

The 17th chapter re-visits "Gracie's Garden"

Rethink the virtual project mentioned above from 6 levels.

The 18th chapter of practical application

Start the system note: with easy-to-use capture tools, set up schedules and action lists, set up a special transaction list, establish a reference system, establish an effective workbench structure.

To enrich the system to pay attention to: the implementation of the project to specific actions, for the collation of Time, weekly review, the initiative to arrange time for a positive perspective related thinking.

Reading notes: The art of 3--balance work and life