12/19/2023 0 Comments Producteev vs asana 2015![]() Immediate actions and reminders are added to my Google Calendar.( "Explore benefits of polyphasic sleep." or "Build a robot to brush my teeth.") Ideas and projects get placed on my personal wiki.Over the course of a day I can get anywhere from 3 to 100 new notes, and all of them need to be sorted. Parsing the InboxĮvery evening, I sit down and clean out my Inbox. Keeping my Inbox small and sorted helps me "parse" it later on. If a task is immediately obvious as being a calendar event or a task manager entry, I will bypass the Inbox and add it to the relevant destination immediately rather than clutter up the Inbox. Once I get back to my computer or phone, I input these little snippets of text into a special notebook in my Evernote called I will then periodically sort and process all of these thoughts and ideas. Insight in a meeting - jot it down on a post-it note.Inspiration in class - add a note in the margins of class slides.Thought while biking - save a voice text via my Moto 360.Shower idea - write it down in my waterproof notebook.Depending on the location and context of where I get a thought several possibilities emerge. The Inbox is my primary destination for thoughts, and can be anything ranging from a post-it to a detailed note in my Evernote. This can be an unstructured Mind Download which I will later parse, or it can be just one thought being added to the Inbox. The first step is to get my thoughts out of my mind and safely saved. I've been experimenting with many different mediums and programs, and ultimately developed a pipeline of sorts, through which my thoughts flow. Now, Mind Downloads are incredibly freeing and useful, but I've found that I need a way to efficiently store and access my thoughts rather than simply piling them into one giant notebook or idea bucket. Saving these thoughts puts me at peace, because I know they will be right where I left them. This clears up my mind to be free and uncluttered, allowing me to focus 100% on the task at hand. I do this simple exercise whenever I feel overloaded, be it with deadlines, ideas, stress, or simply mental chatter. Do you notice how clear your mind is, how calm you are? You know that when needed, you can go back to that list and do what needs to be done. Now put that paper somewhere safe (or save that file) and assess how you feel. Take out a sheet of paper (or open a text file), and make a list of everything on your mind. I invite you to try a simple exercise with me right now. I've spent countless days figuring out how to overcome this barrage of thoughts, and over time developed a system that allows me to keep my mind clear and life organized. I have struggled with this mental chatter and deluge of ideas for many years, constantly trying to get my life in order. When we lose those we feel twice as sad, since we miss out on a potential creation. Then there are thoughts that are not action items but ideas, thoughts of creativity and curiosity. We feel nagging in the back of our mind that we forgot something, missed a meeting, or need to do something soon. ![]() ![]() Not all of us are Buddhist monks, so we get distracted. Some are important, some are completely meaningless. Thoughts are flitting across our minds every moment of the day. By Ivan Smirnov Sep 29th 2015 Tags: guide, thought, management Clarity of Mind ![]()
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