Welcome to the last step of our "10-steps to Ultimate Productivity Course". Here I'll help you start putting your own productivity system in place. We've covered a lot of material in the past lessons, don't let it overwhelm you, let's go! As we said, what's on your mind is what's bothering you, so make sure to put your thoughts, documents and everything else into one big inbox. Literally put them all in a box. Now start processing the box until it's at zero. Decide what to do with a piece...

Welcome to Step 9 of our "10-steps to Ultimate Productivity Course". Here I'll share with you my best practices and tips when it comes to email. How I get email done every day. And how I integrate it with my productivity system. One thing is your productivity tool and the one you choose can be Nozbe or any other tool that has most of the characteristics we mentioned in previous lessons. Your tool should encourage you NOT to "organize tasks" but to really "get tasks done" and move forward to...

Welcome to Step 8 of our "10-steps to Ultimate Productivity Course". Here we'll make you schedule 1-2 hours a week for a meeting with yourself to review your productivity system. Trust me, it's a very important meeting. So you have mastered the previous 7 lessons of our course. You know how to clear your head, organize tasks into projects, define next actions, work from anywhere and with anyone... and use contexts and reference material. That's great. But even if you've done all that and...

Welcome to Step 7 of our "10-steps to Ultimate Productivity Course". Here we'll learn to deal with our "reference materials" - all the documents that are required to get certain tasks done. Productive life starts and ends with to-do lists... but there is something in between - the reference material and all the helpful documents you need, to really get your tasks done. Your documents, notes, files are not an integral part of your productivity system, but they are the "backbone” of...

Welcome to part 6 of our "10-steps to Ultimate Productivity Course". Here we'll talk about "Contexts" - a concept borrowed from the David Allen's book "Getting Things Done". In short "GTD". Well, you already are a productivity ninja as you've mastered the way of adding tasks, organizing them into projects and getting them done from your "Priority" list. Although I'm not a big fan of prioritizing, I like "categorizing" to-do list thanks to a method from GTD called "contexts". The "Contexts"...

Welcome to Step 5 of our "10-steps to Ultimate Productivity Course". Here we'll talk about how you can learn to work with other people and start to communicate through tasks to get things done. Newsflash: Everyone's day equals 24 hours. You can't stretch it. You can't bend the time. And if you can, please tell me how, I really want to know! But for now, let's assume - it's impossible. Let's just face it :-) Reality check: You can't do everything better than everyone. You're not always the...

Welcome to Step 4 of our "10-steps to Ultimate Productivity Course". Here we'll focus on getting things done not only in your traditional work environment but also anywhere else... with your mobile smart phone or a tablet computer... or a piece of paper. The strength of a real productivity system starts with its accessibility and being ready for you anytime, anywhere, anyhow. It's also important to have the information on your devices always in sync. If you're doing this productivity...

Welcome to Step 3 of our "10-steps to Ultimate Productivity Course". Here I'll try to help you find that next physical task that helps you get closer to getting a project done. You'll ask yourself many times over: "What's my next action here?" To me, the "Next Actions" concept is the killer feature of the Getting Things Done system by David Allen. The concept of having so many tasks and deciding on the "next physical action that moves things forward" proved to be a very powerful technique...

Welcome to Step 2 of our "10-steps to Ultimate Productivity Course". Here I'll show you that what you used to think as a task, might actually be a project... when it requires more tasks to complete. You'll learn to create many more projects for yourself than you used to. Like it or not, you will become a Project Manager. We tend to think Project Managers are the guys who manage big investments, take-overs or big deals. We are all Project Managers as we manage our day-to-day tasks and...

Welcome to Step 1 of our "10-steps to Ultimate Productivity Course". Here we'll deal with the fact that you are thinking about too many things at once. You need to take stuff off your mind and put it all in your trusted productivity system. My wife always laughs at me saying I'm like an old computer with default settings - I recognize only 16 basic colors and I pretend to be a multi-tasking guy... where, actually, I can only do one thing at a time. I must admit there is some truth in that....

Welcome to my "10 Steps to Ultimate Productivity" course. Over the next 10 lessons I'll try to teach you everything I've learned so far that helps me stay productive, get a lot done and have a happy life. My name is Michael Sliwinski and I'm the founder of Nozbe - one of the leading productivity applications on the Internet. Every day, thousands upon thousands of busy professionals and teams are getting things done using Nozbe's web application as well as our native apps for the Mac,...