Your first step to getting on top of things
(Get On Top of Things video 1)

It’s perfectly natural to feel overwhelmed with everything there is to do. After over a decade of teaching and working with people on ‘productivity’, this is the first practical step I’d recommend to gaining some peace of mind in the face of The List That Lives In Your Mind.

Every hour is not the same
(Get on Top Of Things video 2)

After getting a list together, we need to look at capacity. Just looking at your available time and slotting things in like Tetris just doesn’t work. If you really want a sustainable, honest process that suits your very human rhythms, there are four nuanced things to consider.

What’s going in your tiny test tube of time?
Get On Top of Things video 3)

Once you’ve captured everything there is to do, and you’ve thought about your capacity, it’s time to decide what to do and, more importantly, what not to do. Using your tiny tweezers. To put your tasks in your tiny test tube of time.

What do you actually give a monkey's about?
(Get On Top Of Things video 4)

Part of getting on top of things is working out what you care about. Here's how I do that.

Get things done, your style
(Get On Top of Things video 5)

I can't quite believe I'm doing this but to finish off Get On Top Of Things Week, I'm showing you the scrappy system I'm currently using to get stuff done. Not in the hopes you'll use mine, but in the hope you'll make your OWN scrappy system that works for you!