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Tim Stringer: Holistic Productivity

“There’s only two problems in life. Either you don’t know where you’re going or you don’t know the next step.” -Tim Stringer, paraphrasing David Allen

Tim recommended Tony Schwartz’s book Be Excellent At Anything*

Step 1 – Reflection

• Tim recommends journaling to separate the noise from what’s most important
• The Day One app* is an excellent resource for this

Step 2 – Accepting life as is

Step 3 – Focus on one thing

• A positive shift in one area of life will influence many other areas
• It’s a lot easier to get early wins by starting with one area first

Step 4 – Inspired action

• Work on a specific action for a 90-day period
• Think a strategize about your action like it’s already occurred

Strategies

• Name projects the define the objective
• Due dates only when things are actually due

Resources

• OmniFocus for the Mac* and iPhone*
• LearnOmniFocus.com
• Holistic Productivity Courses
• Holistic Productivity from The Omni Group on Vimeo.

Practical action

• Try journaling for a week

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