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My Productivity Whitepaper
Patrick Rhone | May 12 2006
Just thought I would finally offer up my productivity whitepaper for folks to check out if they wanted. I was inspired by Emory's now famous GTD Whitepaper to try to get my org-fu all laid out in one piece for all to see. It is only about 75% done right now but good enough to get it out there. Check it out at my blog here: Org-Fu ?berpost - Productivity Whitepaper I would welcome your comments or suggestions 17 Comments
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 Can you explain (here, or...Submitted by patrickrhone on May 25, 2006 - 11:54am.
Craig wrote: Can you explain (here, or in another update) how you use Omni Outliner for Vertical Mapping? Are the "levels" nested underneath each other? Or does each become a topic for thoughts below? I will try to explain briefly here but will eventually do a longer post about it at my site. As many of you know, I am a big fan of the vertical map. I guess the best way to spell it out is to show you a piece of mine. Here is a section of my 20,000 ft map: 20,000 ft. - Areas of Responsibility As you can see, the idea is to outline all of your areas of responsibility on a personal and professional level (I only have the personal above). All of my projects and next actions should fall under one of these areas. If I have one that does not, then I evaluate if: a) I have a new area or responsibility that I need to add to the map. See, for me, making sure ones projects and actions are in direct alignment with your responsibilities and goals are the whole point of doing GTD to begin with. I mean, seriously, why bother even caring if something gets done if it is not moving you forward in your life. If you don't know what forward is, what it looks like, what it feels like, why it matters or it's purpose, how can you do it? I remember in the GTD Roadmap seminar David Allen displayed a picture he drew of his 50,000 ft map when he was a much younger man (I think he said 18). It was amazing how much of what he drew then he has achieved today. It was a very powerful statement of how much having a vision, a picture of what you want your life to be, can drive you to achieve it. (Had to edit the outline because it did not display the tabs correctly so they were replaced with "****") » POSTED IN:
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