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Derek Franklin who is already a best-selling author for Adobe/Macromedia Press came up with a simple system for getting more things done in his life. It consists of the following there steps:
- Writing down all the things you want to get done on a day. These things might range from writing or doing some meta-planning your next project to answering your email or making your checkbook balance.
- Assigning a specific block of time and time of the day to each specific time to each task or group of tasks. Anything from 15 minutes to 2 hours. Chunks of 30 minutes or less work best.
- You use a timer, it could be an old egg timer or a fancy digital one and focus on nothing but accomplishing that task. You do not answer the phone , you don’t get up for a drink, you don’t log onto Facebook – none of the usual time wasters. You remain focused on the task-at-hand!
It sounds simple but it really works. I know because I have been using the system since I heard about it.
While powerful, this technique requires keeping lists of tasks on paper and crossing them off and juggling that with a timer. There had to be an even better way.
Derek Franklin invented one. He created a software program called The Action Machine that elegantly integrates his potent method into a framework that makes using the system a no-brainer.
You can find out more and get a download of the latest version 3.0 of The Action Machine by visiting this site.
You could mention the Pomodoro process, where this originated.