Teens are overwhelmed, partly because they don’t yet have the skills to manage the unprecedented amount of stuff that enters their brains each day.  – from LifeHacker.com

“Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.”

“You can do anything, but not everything.”

― David Allen, (GTD) Getting Things Done for Teens: Take Control of Your Life in a Distracting World

SUMMARY

• I organized my GTD. It looks boring and clunky, but I’ll try it out for a few months.

PRACTICE ROOM (TUTORIALS)

• Set a timer
  • Spend up to 15 minutes in this ‘room’ on either ONE of the scripting languages below, Javascript (PlayCanvas) or C# (Unity)  (NOT BOTH)

Unity – C#

• • https://www.sololearn.com/Course/CSharp/
  • Variables
  • reassessing myself in case I missed something

CLASSROOM (THEORY & ANALYSIS)

You are going to learn to develop your own version of David Allen’s Getting Things Done (GTD) process in this ‘room.’

• Set a timer
• Spend 45 minutes in this ‘room’
  • Spend 20 minutes watching The Art of Stress-Free Productivity: David Allen 
  • Spend 10 minutes watching Getting Things Done (GTD) by David Allen – Animated Book Summary And Review
  • Spend 5 minutes reading Help Teens De-Stress With These ‘Getting Things Done’ Hacks
  • Spend 10 minutes writing a small paragraph reflection

1. make a list of items for each week(class) on Trello, every Monday
2. decide whether if things are actionable right now, if not- make detailed processes
3. write down every event that is happening outside class
4. put the individual tasks on the ‘done column’, with respect to which day it was completed on
5. add to the lists when new things are added to assignments

write down ideas when I’m trying to sleep, or having random discussions with friends

• DELETE ALL OF MR. LE DUC’s INSTRUCTIONS, AFTER YOU ARE DONE

 

LAB (THEORY PRACTICED)

• Set a timer
• Spend 15 minutes in this ‘room’
• Rewatch David explain ‘Maps’ from 19:57 to 21:16 of the video

Examine Two GTD Maps: Basic and Detailed

1. Detailed map by guccio@文房具社 icensed under CC BY-NC 2.0
2. Basic map from BiggerPlate.com embedded below

GTD-based Trusted System

• Examine and pick a trusted system from the 4 options listed below to ‘capture’ your work
  • A trusted system is your method for managing your tasks in a way that you consistently get things done

1. 1. Trello.com with a – GTD Template
      • We use Trello in this class to manage group projects
        • You will create a Trello account a few weeks from now regardless
        • You might want to start now
      • We start using Trello in the second semester
      • Watch Mr. Le Duc Creating a Trello Account and Add GTD Template Tutorial (3:45)
      • 
      • You can get the free Trello app at the Apple Store or Google Play
      • 
   2. Your phone
   3. Paper and pen or pencil
   4. Examine LifeHacker.com’s GTD Resources
      • Try a To-Do List That Lives in Your Tabs 
      • (https://trello.com/b/luobjyvX/life)

OUTSIDE (PRODUCTIVITY & THE BRAIN)

• Go for a 15-minute walk, if it is safe to do so  and follow the advice from David Allen
  • Bring a notepad
  • Walk and relax and allow your mind to wander
  • If you land on something that needs your attention, write it down
  • Continue throughout your walk

STUDIO (CREATING MAPS)

• Set a timer
• Spend up to 15 minutes
• Then watch David Allen summarize the steps
  • “Very simple folks! …
    1. Just WRITE STUFF DOWN
    2. Decide the ACTIONS and OUTCOMES embedded in them
    3. Get yourself a MAP OF ALL THAT so you can step back and take a look at it.
    4. And then, basically, you USE THE MAP TO DECIDE, “OK, here’s the course that we’re going to go on.”
    5. You then LAUNCH the ‘ship’ on a trusted course in the short term, as well as on the long horizon that you’re moving on.
    6. And then, on a regular basis, you need to REASSESS, “OK, we need to take in NEW DATA, CLEANUP, RECALIBRATE, and REFOCUS for the next leg of the journey.”
  • It’s that simple…”
• ‘Capture’ all the ACTION ITEMS you can in your GTD Trusted System

CONTROL ROOM (PRODUCTION)

• Set a timer
• Spend 10 minutes in this ‘room’
• Share your system with the class in the Schoology Week 10 Discussion Board
  • Take a picture or screenshot and post on our Schoology page
• Prepare to briefly share how your system helps you…
  1. Capture Action Items
  2. Process them
  3. and Organize them
• DELETE THIS WHOLE SECTION, AFTER YOU ARE DONE

WHAT I LEARNED and PROBLEMS I SOLVED

• I learned how to organize a GTD to fit my needs, and how to modify it to fit my workflow.
• I’m on the way to solving the issue of procrastination that plagued me for weeks as I had no one, physically, to share and talk about classwork to.