025 How Next-Action Thinking Changes Over Time – ProductivityCast




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Summary: 25 episodes! Thank you all for listening and helping us grow the ProductivityCast community!<br> <br> As we grow and change in our personal and professional lives, we should all consider if the way you see your “next actions” (the granular, physical tasks we take to move projects forward, a la Getting Things Done by David Allen). If we approach next-action crafting in time chunks smaller or larger, or based on different contexts, than you need to accomplish them, then we’ll see ourselves being less effective. In this cast, the ProductivityCast team addresses the issue of priming ourselves to appropriate next-action thinking in our productivity systems.<br> <br> Enjoy! Give us feedback! And, again, thanks for listening!<br> <br> If you'd like to discuss this episode, please click here to leave a comment down below (this jumps you to the bottom of the post).<br> <br> In this Cast<br> <br> Ray Sidney-Smith<br> <br> Augusto Pinaud<br> <br> Francis Wade<br> <br> Art Gelwicks<br> <br> Show Notes<br> <br> Resources we mention, including links to them will be provided here. Please listen to the episode for context.<br> <br> Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen<br> <br> Quantified Self (DC Quantified Self - Ray is the Organizer)<br> <br> Eisenhower Matrix (Merrill-Covey Matrix)<br> <br> Holmes-Rahe Life Stress Inventory<br> <br> Life changes to give you pause to know it’s time to reflect on the structure, time and contexts of your next-action planning:<br> <br> 1- Birth<br> <br> 2- Death<br> <br> Professional Transitions<br> <br>    3- I've Been Demoted!<br> <br>    4- I've Been Promoted!<br> <br>    5- I've Been Hired!<br> <br>    6- Unemployment (whether involuntary or by choice)<br> <br>    7- Changing Careers (while employed or not)<br> <br> 8- Starting School<br> <br> 9- First Job<br> <br> 10- Moving Home<br> <br> 11- Moving Office<br> <br> 12- Downsizing Home<br> <br> 13- Starting Retirement<br> <br> 15- Marriage / Long-Term Commitment<br> <br> 15- Divorce / Separation / Ending a Long-Term Relationship<br> <br> Calculator - Do You Need a Task Management Improvement? by Francis Wade<br> <br> Francis: “The Ultimate, Evergreen Guide to Choosing Your Next Task Management App or Practice.” Plus. the stuff on implicit vs explicit tagging is in my book which is being updated - http://perfect.mytimedesign.com. Francis also included the idea in this paper - http://www.2time-sys.com/can-time-actually-be-managed/<br> <br> Francis: The idea of facing changing constraints as task load increases, and the need to see a change is also mentioned in this article: What are the greatest task management tools, and why?<br> <br> Raw Text Transcript<br> <br> Raw, unedited and machine-produced text transcript so there may be substantial errors, but you can search for specific points in the episode to jump to, or to reference back to at a later date and time, by keywords or key phrases. The time coding is h:mm:ss.ms to h:mm:ss.ms (e.g., 0:00:00.000,0:00:04.000 starts at 0.00 seconds and ends at 4 seconds in the cast's audio).