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R.J. Nestor

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Sep 21

Productivity is answering one simple question — “What do I do Right Now?” — and then doing it!

Now is the only moment we have any control over, but we rarely talk about that.

We gather & organize tasks, but we don’t bridge the last mile to execution.

So, how can we do that?…

Build your productivity system to support now. Use these three “Now Lists”:

1. Agenda

“What do I intend to do today?”

The Agenda takes potential work—tasks from other lists in your system—and schedules it for today. It keeps you focused but not overwhelmed.

2. Log

“What did I do?”

Work should produce two results: the direct work outcome, and the process you used to DO the work.

The Log captures processes. You can review them to fix friction, and—critically—to recognize recurring work and create Procedures for easier future work.

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R.J. Nestor

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Sep 13

Cohort Six of AP Productivity is open for Early Bird registration (15% off)!

👉 rjn.st/ap-productivit…

AP Productivity: Cohort is an eight-week course that will dramatically improve your productivity using Tools for Thought

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Cohort Six features upgraded benefits!

✅ Cohort Six establishes new fundamentals and vocabulary for the AP Productivity system.

Building and maintaining your system will be SIMPLE, and you’ll get loads more accomplished!

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@RoamResearch

✅ Cohort Six’s back-to-basics approach applies to any Tool for Thought

Do you use @RoamResearch? Or @amplenote? @logseq? @obsdmd?

WHATEVER TfT you love, you can use it. As well as any other tools that simplify your workflow.

All that matters: does it solve YOUR problems?

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R.J. Nestor

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Sep 13

Let’s talk productivity fundamentals.

Consider DNA—complex life emerged from the combination and interaction of 4 letters: A (adenine), C (cytosine), G (guanine), T (thymine).

To function well, your productivity system—NO MATTER HOW COMPLEX—must remain fundamentally simple.

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If you want to be consistently and reliably productive, you need these mechanics:

1. Lists

- Lists have varying properties: What items can it contain, what is its capacity, does the order matter, etc.

- Types (“properties settings”) include Agendas, Inboxes, Projects, etc.

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2. Interactions between, and within, Lists

- How do your Lists point to each other? i.e., how do you guide your attention (to the extent that’s possible!)

- Interactions range from manual links to a project, to fully automated “surfacing” of items onto one list from another

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R.J. Nestor

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Sep 7

What does "productivity" mean to you?

You have to answer that before you build a system to SUPPORT your productivity!

My AP Productivity cohort course has seven Guiding Principles, which I revised while preparing for Cohort Six.

See what you think:

The first 4 are about the Psychology of Productivity.

1. Productivity is not busy work. Productivity is accomplishing what's important to YOU.

Your productivity system should make your work more efficient and effective, but also set boundaries.

2. Your productivity system should be tailored to the work you need to accomplish.

The only way to ensure that is to build it yourself.

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R.J. Nestor

@rjnestor

Aug 26

Nonviolent Communication, by Marshall Rosenberg, provides tools to navigate uncomfortable conversations, resolve conflicts, and empathize with those we disagree with (and have more compassion for OURSELVES, too!).

I had LOTS of takeaways, but I narrowed them down to these:

📝 Nonviolent Communication (NVC) is an approach to speaking and listening that leads with the heart and encourages compassion toward ourselves and others. NVC has four components:

(1) Observations
(2) Feelings
(3) Needs
(4) Requests

📝 In a nutshell, NVC is identifying and meeting needs. We express our needs, search for the needs of others, verify that we understand their needs, empathize with their needs (and OUR needs), and figure out how to meet everyone’s needs. No jugdments—just needs.

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R.J. Nestor

@rjnestor

Aug 15

@ByronKatie

I've been thinking a lot about Reality, no doubt because I recently read @ByronKatie's "Loving What Is."

I see four ways to approach Reality:

1. Try to control it
2. Resign yourself to it
3. Ride it like a wave
4. Shape it

It's a lot like singing...

https://twitter.com/rjnestor/status/1553179667439419398?s=21&t=qeIoJnV8vDWz4Ogs42hWuA

When you learn to sing, at first you TRY to sing. You think a beautiful sound must be controlled.

If you let go of that, at first it'll be chaotic.

But eventually you let your voice BE your voice.

And you learn that if you set intentions (~ "act"), your voice will follow.

When you try to control Reality, you can't. Reality simply IS.

But resigning to it leaves you pummeled by the chaos of fate.

When you accept Reality you can let it guide you.

And when you set clear intentions, you can shape REALITY: the control you sought originally!

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