{"id":4289,"date":"2016-12-27T17:57:40","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T16:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kerstinpur.de\/?p=4289"},"modified":"2025-02-04T10:20:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T09:20:19","slug":"today-was-a-good-day-or-how-i-get-things-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kerstinhack.de\/en\/heute-war-ein-guter-tag-oder-wie-ich-die-dinge-geregelt-kriege\/","title":{"rendered":"Today was a good day. Or: how I get things done."},"content":{"rendered":"

Today was a good day.<\/h1>\n

I love the days \u201ebetween the years\u201c to sort things out. And myself.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Over the last few days, I have realised that I have a great longing: Less stuff on my mind. All these thousands of things that need to be done. Sometimes with a lot of pressure, when - as I have experienced as a self-employed person in recent months - finances are pretty tight and a solution has to be found quickly.<\/p>\n

Not a nice feeling!<\/p>\n

Over the last few days, I've heard a lot about<\/p>\n

In the Bergman Leadership Podcast (20 min interviews with interesting personalities) I came across an extremely exciting Interview with Christine Carter<\/a>\u00a0and via the page to a link to it Ebook<\/a>, which promises strategies that free up one day a week.<\/p>\n

\"0-to-do-done\"Clearing out to-do lists<\/h2>\n

I implemented one of her key strategies straight away. I started working on my to-do mountains. And sorted them. Since I love paper, I write down my to-dos on paper (environmental friends: don't worry, I usually use used paper).<\/p>\n

Step 1 - Do not do<\/h3>\n

Sort out everything you don't want to do. In my case, that was a considerable pile about 5 cm high. Not least because I had already completed a number of to-dos but had neglected to throw away the pieces of paper with the to-do. Tactical mistake.<\/p>\n

But also because you can't actually do everything that you could theoretically do. To say simply and clearly: I'm not doing that. I'm focussing on other things, that was really good.<\/p>\n

Step 2 - Delegate<\/h3>\n

The things I can delegate are unfortunately not too many - just under 1 cm. But still.<\/p>\n

Step 3 - Sorting<\/h3>\n

She recommends - like Peter Bregman in 18 minutes<\/a>, to define 5 important goals\/tasks in life for yourself. No more. And to use 95% of the time you have for these 5 things (ambitious!). There is also the 5% folder for the other stuff.<\/p>\n

My 5 most important goals \/ priorities for 2017\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n