Validate Your Life

Welcome back to the Productivity and Organizational Progress (POP) Suite. Today we’re talking about just an overview of notes that sparked a lot these organizationally productive practices.

Before we get into the nitty-gritty of where the “REAL” organization needs to occur and delve into sub-topics like email, I think we could use a little insight from our friend Merlin Mann.

This guy is chock full of invaluable, priceless tips on Mac-based organization. In fact I, and many others, likely consider him THE mac-based productivity/organizational guru.
Here’s some notes I took on his Google Speech.

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Welcome back to the Productivity and Organizational Progress (POP) Suite. Today we’re talking about Approaches to Organization.

First off, time for a little reminiscence…High school and elementary, oddly enough, carried the most structured time in my life. Towards the end of high school and definitely in college my sense of “To-dos” “What I was committed to getting done” and “organizers for getting those things done” deteriorated. I erroneously misperceived that I was simply required of less (far from the truth, I had greater, more demanding, and more copious demands) so I stopped thinking I needed to keep track of things I was trying to get done. Wow. Bad move. Horrible move. Do you have any idea how much your anxiety levels, your very physiology, alter and drastically change when you decide to operate under the delusion that “I don’t have that much going on, I can keep it all in my mind!” I can assure you from experience, you get pretty stressed. And someone consistently stressed does things differently; they eat too much or too little (never in balance), have over-excercise or never have an established exercise routine (no balance), they over-communicate or never communicate about their position (again, no balance). Get my drift. You lose balance of all kind when you’re consistently stressed, and storing your entire life’s to-dos, plans, projects, and lists in your head quite swiftly mutates you into a hyper-stressed wreck. Therefore, not having a capturing device for your to-dos and choosing to store them in your head, destroys and annihilates all successful balance in life. And balance is a prerequisite for success, so don’t plan on being successful without balance, and don’t plan on having balance without zero stress, and don’t plan on having zero stress without a solid organization capturing system!!

So, you see why we’re gathered here today to learn more about Productivity Organizational Progress: success, balance, and zero-stress! Onward!

This section of the POP Suite focuses on methods of productivity and organization and different approaches.

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