How to Get Things Done
I’m sure you would be familiar with the phrase “Eat that Frog”… Basically “Suck it up” and get it done… While it’s a great book title, it’s important to have a deeper look at what prevents people from achieving what they set their minds to…
In other words, HOW to get things done. If you study productivity theory, goal settings, and many other management tools, it’s possible to be really overwhelmed and at times even confused… The more I learn and help people optimise their performance and wellbeing, the more I realise that you cannot solve a complex problem (getting things done) by making it even more complex or complicated…
Albert Einstein said, “You cannot solve a problem at the same level of thinking you created it.”
Most problems resemble a paradox or a dilemma – you want to do one thing, but there is something else in the way, or something else is more “important” or “urgent”… or even quite frankly very often – you have to do something, but you don’t really feel like doing it…
Another aspect of not getting things done is that sometimes there is so much stuff around you and/or inside of you that you don’t really know where to start and therefore, nothing happens…
Today, I’m not going to touch on the “paradox/dilemma” of getting things done (that will be the topic of another post), but I’m going to explore briefly the “too much stuff” side of the issue.
Less is more
The underlying cause of why people don’t get things done when they have too much stuff is because they don’t see connections between the things themselves and they don’t see any pattern or order. In other words, they have no strategy in time and space and have no idea how much energy doing the tasks or activities to reach their goal/outcome is going to require.
Therefore, with that much uncertainty, their brain goes into the “stress mode” and resistance appears…
Our brain is an exquisite tool to find patterns among apparent chaos – that’s why we invented Science after all… and the consequence of that is that we have become very adaptable to survive.
To move from “I WANT BUT I don’t know How” to “I KNOW and I CAN” requires you to organise things/ideas in time and space to create a sequence that will inform you of the amount of energy, time, and space it’s going to require to complete that task/activity.
And the simplest way to do that is to take a pen and a piece of paper and draw a sequence from START to FINISH and start placing on that sequence the different key elements that need to be in place and completed to achieve your outcome.
So here are the steps:
#1 – Identify the necessary components to achieve your outcome.
#2 – Organise them by order of priority
#3 – Draw a timeline and start placing the various components on it in the most “logical and/or intuitive way” for your outcome to happen… Make sure you have a finish date!!!! Otherwise, it will be “Some day….” or “Never day….”
#4 – Now that you have your sequence in time and space, make sure the first thing to start with doesn’t require too much energy or time, so you can get started immediately.
#5 – Follow the sequence and tick things off as you complete them and reward yourself when you achieve your outcome.
As you are progressing on your timeline and getting things ticked off, you’ll notice more energy and momentum…
In Nutshell:
Getting things done requires:
- CLARITY to the path
- CERTAINTY of the action to take (WHAT/ HOW / WHEN)
- CONFIDENCE that you have the resources (time, space, energy) to do it!
And pen and paper remain the simplest tools for this…
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