063: Effective Task & Project Management

Sep 10, 2019

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The main reason people aren’t able to effectively manage their important tasks and projects is they don’t have a good system for capturing tasks and ideas as they come up. In this episode I’ll share with you the three keys to effective task capture and management.

The Magic Number 7, Plus or Minus 2: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information, by George Miller
Eisenhower Matrix, ETA blog post
David Allen interview by Tim Ferriss
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress Free Productivity, by David Allen
Asana; - cloud-based task & project management tool
Omnifocus for Mac

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