GMD – Getting More Done

Hi, my name is Maciej Anisarowicz, I came to you from Białystok, I even have a shirt, a heart for COD and COD from the East. Today I will talk about productivity, so I named my method "Getting more done" and I will share with you my experiences of how to do more and having time, just like everyone else, i.e. 24 hours a day. First of all, to make the context of what I'm going to say, I have to introduce myself quite intensively, so that it's clear what I'm talking about. I have two aspects. The first is an IT specialist, specifically a .NET programmer. As an IT specialist, I do certain things. There was a time when I could say that I was working in Ultrico company

for 6 hours a day. Besides that I was working with Bottega with programming trainings. Besides that I have been running Devstyle.pl for 8 years. Which takes a lot of time. Besides that I am a pro-legend. I try to speak at least once or twice a month. I was in Vilnius yesterday, today I am here, Wednesday I am in Warsaw again for presentation. I also have a podcast, devtalk.pl "Programmatic voice in your home" If you don't know it, I invite you to listen to it, especially when I said "Tagline" in Turun, nobody laughed. I'm one of the seven leaders of the Białystok Dotnet Group. If anyone would like to talk about technical topics, not necessarily dotnet,

then I invite you to us. We sponsor transport, accommodation and everyone gets a little piece of bimber, even in a sweater that looks like this one. You have to send me an e-mail, the dates are now in January. You'll find it somewhere. Besides that, I'm one of the organizers of Programistok conference. Maybe some of you have seen a super music video that promoted our conference. I see that there are those who have heard. This iconic GITPUL t-shirt is a sign of recognition. If someone didn't know, this t-shirt is from Pitbull brand. I also write articles for the industry, we have one for the industry, so for the "Programmist" magazine. I publish an article every now and then. In addition, I organized a competition this year, "Daj się

poznać", which was about writing an open source project and blogging about it twice a week. As many as 300 people reported, so 300 new blogs in the Polish blogosphere of programming were created. Besides that, I'm trying to do some interesting things on YouTube. Recently I got bored, but I'm planning to start again soon. I saw that yesterday Anna was performing, he's posting on Snapchat, I'm also trying to chase him on Snapchat. I also have one of three... I also created a website about Microsoft MVP, a program that is very popular and probably that's why few people heard about it. I'm one of three MVP in the dotnet category in Poland. Microsoft gave me a badge, I don't know what they expect from it.

And this is my first incarnation. My second incarnation and hobby is being a father of this lovely princess, whom I even brought to Warsaw with me today, so unfortunately I can't stay here for a week, I'm just going to take care of myself. And as I like to convert all my interests into 0.1, I started a blog called "Perspektywa Taty" some time ago. I said that the parent's sword has two blades, because it's true. But I was a bit bored with running this blog. If I wasn't bored, I would probably be somewhere like "Dzień dobry, TVN", not here. But since I'm not a fan of leaving things unfinished, I created Parentingowe.pl, the largest blog aggregator

in Poland. It turned out that there are 500 of them and another 400 are waiting for the add-on. So if you want to have a child or don't know how to do it, please go there. There are 500 blogs and there will be 900 that will describe such topics. And I said all this not to brag or something, but to show that it all takes a lot of time. And besides that, I don't have any other hobbies, I admit it, but besides that, you still have to sleep a little bit. And it all takes time. And some time ago, 4 or 5 years ago, I didn't do these things because I wasn't a teacher, I

wasn't a teacher, I didn't run parenting blogs, I wasn't a father, I didn't have a podcast, I only had a job and a blog. Now I think about how I was living on vacation all the time, and yet I had the impression that life was out of my hands, that I was just swimming with the current, I had no influence on what was happening. It all overgrown me, even such stupid things, some ordinary everyday life. And it changed, because I got a training from productivity, which was held in Warsaw for 4 hours. And there I met something like a methodist of getting things done. David Allen. Has anyone heard of GTD? Half of the people.

It's strange that so few people. And this is GTD. I read this book and it turned out that it's not exactly what I'm looking for, but it's a bit of a shit for the higher management staff. And while there are a lot of cool practices, it turned out that when I tried to approach it so strictly and apply these recommendations exactly as they are described, I failed. So I read it again, I wondered what went wrong and created my own Getting More Done. And that's what I'm going to tell you about today. And everything What I've been doing since then, and probably what you're doing too, but before it was completely unconscious for me, is going through a process. A process that I called MNOPR, five

letters of the alphabet, MNOPR. It means: think, write, organize, plan, do. First you have to come up with something and then something with these things. Let it happen or not, it's our decision and that's what I'm going to tell you about today. So, thinking is the most important thing in this process, because to do something or to decide that we don't do it, we have to think it out first. I once noticed that if you put a quote on a foggy nature, it looks smarter, so I took a quote from myself and did it exactly that. After some experiences and reflections, I came to the conclusion that effective thinking requires an empty mind and a pure

conscience. Good morning, Internet. Okay, so for effective thinking we need an empty mind and a pure conscience. Why? In a moment. Probably each of you experienced something like this, which is presented here on the picture, with which we don't know what it's about yet, but it's about the so-called "pure thoughts" that come back to us all the time. Something comes to us, we want to get rid of it, it happens for a moment and in half a minute it comes back again. And the brain falls into such a loop, it thinks about it all the time and thinks and thinks and it is very harmful because some studies have shown that in the human brain we have from 5 to 7 slots that can deal with one thing, each

of them. In my opinion, I have one slot, women maybe have two, but I doubt that anyone has seven. If we take care of our slots with something like I have to buy milk, Someone recommended me a book so that I would not forget to read it. I have to go to the dentist or I have to extend the insurance in the car. This type of things. It keeps coming back. It is impossible to get rid of it and therefore we have no room in our heads to invent something else. Not only such things are still in the head. Here I will return to pure conscience for a moment. We do not have an empty

mind when these things are spinning all the time. Such a spin weight is on. But pure conscience is also extremely important. Once I had an adventure, I left my car in the parking lot, someone drew it for me, of course there were no cameras or anything. It was a bad luck that the day after I drew someone. I thought to myself: "Maybe it's him?" So I went home. And it really bit me. It bit me even more when it turned out that there was already a monitoring on this parking lot. I couldn't focus on anything else, it was so stupid and so on, I'll never do it again. But pure consciousness is also needed to think about something else, to give yourself the freedom to invent some things

that have not been in your head yet. Do you know what it is? Fire? Oh, it's fire. Oh, the thought from the sieve, exactly, from Harry Potter. It's a magical vessel filled with some magical liquid, which works in such a way that some The old man in a toad puts a shovel into his head and makes this sound. And the thoughts stay in the pot, and he has his head empty. And that's exactly what we need. And the good news is that we also have something like that in our non-magical world. But it doesn't look so spectacular. It looks like a huge file of tiny cards. There is a practice that allows us to experience exactly what these magicians experience. We take a file of these cards,

there should be 500 of them for security. They can be tiny. We take a pen, take a vacation, kick everyone out of the house, sit down at the desk and write. We write everything that comes to mind. This process took me about 7 hours, so it was actually a whole day of hard work, because after two hours it starts to be really hard work. It turns out that On these cards we have a backup of our entire day. It's just terrifying. I had things like this: I have to clean up the toilet, but we don't stand up, we just write down the toilet stench. My wife asked me to knock on the door of the

fridge, because it creaked. Then I thought: "Damn, I wish I had a Mazda RX-8" and I went to Romania. And then Mazda on a piece of paper. Then I got married in three months, and the client, who was to blame, ran away from the country. How am I going to get married? And I had about 300 of those. Some of them were repeated. The wedding was a thing of the past, because it gave a sign. But after seven hours, I had a very strange feeling. Nothing new comes to mind. It's just empty. The head hurts, but it's completely empty, there's nothing more to throw at it, because the brain sees. It doesn't give up for

the first hour, it keeps throwing it at us, but when it sees that we keep throwing it at these cards, it really works. It just stops throwing certain things at us. Some everyday things stopped appearing, then some dreams stopped appearing, and finally everything stopped appearing. It was a strange feeling, it reminded me of the feeling when I was in a post office and I jumped from a huge tower into the water for the first time. I felt like I was shaking for half a second. It was something that lasted until the evening. I just thought: "Jesus Christ, I don't think about anything, how wonderful it is!" It was very relaxing. Later, it turned out that

all the things on the cards had landed and I have them to this day. And this process comes from GTD, from Getting Things Done by Allen, and I think it's a necessary step to start doing anything, to get rid of everything that's in our heads. There are definitely valuable things, but there could be also non-valuable things, and they just disappear on these cards. I'm listening. So when I do something, I throw away the card. No, I have these cards, originally, stuck in a drawer. It's not for doing anything. It's just to get rid of it. And it has to last that long, unfortunately. And it requires so many of these cards. They are just to

make my head empty. How often do I repeat the process? I did it once. Five years ago. To start doing something different. Then I started doing something different and I just didn't have that thing in my head since then. And that's it. Because if we train ourselves in such a way, not to mess up our heads with things that are unnecessary to us at a given moment, we will experience a wonderful effect of something like the gallbladder for the brain. And this appears in different situations. That is, then I have an empty head. We have an empty head and the brain can do something different than to remind us of milk, dentists or a book that someone recommended. We'll come back to the concept of the brain's "jauh" run.

In any case, it's about having an empty head. It doesn't mean that you're a moron, it means that you have room for something new. Because then there are things called "glosses". It's a very common word, but it's taken from the terminology of a book, one of which I will talk about later. Glosses are when we have a new idea that we didn't have before, a new solution of a problem that we were thinking about for some time, or we remembered something that we shouldn't have forgotten. So it's a very necessary thing. But what is most beautiful in all of this is that these enlightens come to us alone. We don't need time for it. Because

all the time, from the realization that we want to do more, to the probability of death, we fight to have more time. So if something doesn't cost us time, it's the best thing in the world, because time is the most precious resource that anyone has. Because it can't be bought. It doesn't take time, because such hallucinations come at the weirdest moments. When we vacuum ourselves, when we stand in the queue to the doctor, when we take a shower, when we go to sleep and try to fall asleep, when we go by the elevator, when we stand in the red light, where we wouldn't do anything anyway, or check Twitter, and when you give your head a moment to do something by itself, then the weirdest, you could say, ideas

appear. I forced myself to do it fully, that it just comes to me, even when I'm not ready for it. When I used to watch "The Eighth Passenger" in the evening, I was drinking wine in the chair, and suddenly around midnight, when I was in the middle of a bottle of wine, I don't know how I would have heard a voice like: "Hey, you have a podcast? And there are so many conferences? Record a special episode with the organizers of these conferences." And it was a plan ready to be implemented. I didn't think about it for a second before. It just came to me. I thought: "Factually, I woke up at 5 am, sent emails

to some of the organizers, we recorded this episode in 3 days, it turned out to be very popular and that something like this was needed and I went back to watching a foreign film. Because my head was empty while watching this film and it wasn't my fault." What is even more interesting is that these enlightenment, if we train ourselves in it, because it requires a little practice, they come by themselves, surely each of you experiences it, but if you do it consciously, it will appear much more often. If we train ourselves in such a process, these enlightenment come not even in pairs, but in whole flocks. It happens that I sit here for 15 minutes

and I have 10 brilliant ideas that I would have thought for 100 years, but I would not have come up with. And it turns out that a lot of people who are considered productive, work in this way. Sometimes I experienced this when I invited some famous people to a podcast. They asked for a week's time, but not because they don't have time today or tomorrow. Because usually such productive people, organized, have time even now. They say they need a week to just think about what they want to say about it. And that's how it works. They don't think about it, they just form their own thoughts and reflections in their heads. All they need to

do is give a task to our head and it does it. While we are doing something else. But when we have so many ideas, what do we need to do with them? The worst thing we can do is to start implementing them, because we won't have a chance to make 10 ideas in 15 minutes. So we need to write them down. Here is a picture, you probably know it, it's a perfect man, a Vitruvian man, Leonardo da Vinci. Maybe he is perfect, but for me he has one big flaw. He can have hands exactly like those in the belly, but he has nothing to do with his thoughts. He probably couldn't write. We need a storage for these thoughts, because our brain is simply not suitable for it. It

can be a pen drive, a card or a regular pen. It doesn't matter. The key is to note everything down, so that it doesn't stay in your head, because it will twist and twist and disappear, replaced by this stupid milk or some stupid book. Our brain is not adapted to remember something for a long time. No and that's it. I developed a habit of observing how people behave when I talk to them and we decide something. And I trust people who just write it down, and not put faith in their mind. Because I don't put faith in their mind, even if I don't put faith in mine. I used to work in a company where

the project manager was a great guy, we had the same passion for different letters, for different notes, we shared this passion. One day I came to work, we sat down for coffee and he tells me that he has read some nice book and I say: "Let's bring it to him". And what does he do? He takes out his phone or card and writes: "For a percentage, bring me the book". He didn't bring it the next day, he didn't bring it in two days, but I didn't remind him of it even once, because I knew that if he didn't bring it, it means he couldn't, maybe he wasn't at home. I knew he would bring it

to me. He brought it after three days. If he hadn't written it down, I would be sure that I would have to fight every day, send emails, call with a request for this stupid book, until he finally bought it for himself instead of counting on him to bring it to me. And it's exactly the same in normal life. Recently I was with my wife in a burger shop, a lady comes and says: "What do you need?" "Burger twice, fries twice." She doesn't write down the menu. And she brings the burger without fries. Even such things as "Burger twice, fries twice" can be twisted. I just know that I will twist it myself, so others will

twist it too. If I set something up with someone, I do it myself, I send a note, I send an email. We talked about it at the meeting, because you probably forgot. It is better to write down too much than too little. Paper or electronic notebook will do. You can do it in several ways. There are two goals. The first goal is to relax the brain, which I mentioned earlier. To keep it relatively empty. And if we exercise properly, Our brain will know that we don't waste what we write down, so it will trust us. If it ends up somewhere, it means we will do something with it and we don't need to remind ourselves of it. You

can do it in different ways. The first goal is to throw it out of your head, and the second goal is to archive it in some way, so that it doesn't die. I use OneNote software, if you don't like Microsoft, it's the only good software Microsoft has made. Only in desktop version, because they made it like everything else in mobile. There are also other ones, I used Evernote before, but it's really worse than OneNote, there's Google Keep, there's a lot of it. No matter what you use, you can even use a paper notebook, but I have a type of writing "write only", so if I write it, it will disappear and it wouldn't work. My

goal, my tool is to archive it all, to keep it safe, to have it with me everywhere, on the phone, on the computer, all the time, so that I can find things I've ever thought of at any given moment, and most importantly, to be able to share it with someone. or give me a URL, if someone asks me something, very often it's like this, someone asks me a question and it turns out that I've been writing about it on my blog for 108 years, so I just send him a link and it's convenient, but sometimes it's like this, someone asks me something and I don't write about it anywhere, because it has nothing to do

with programming or generally with the profession, the problem is only some, for example, why do I have a Hyundai and not a BMW, I have a note on this topic, because I struggled with it myself and I wrote down these reflections and I just send a PDF of why. It also serves as a dictaphone, but for people who drive a car and are over 15 years old. 15-year-olds don't drive a car, but they can probably write text messages while driving. It leads to the fact that our brain is the best mechanism in the world. And people pay us for the work of this brain for hours a day. And if someone pays me quite a

lot of money for thinking, and I have this tool for free for myself, then why should I waste it? Maybe he just came up with something that will be useful to me in some time, even in five years. We'll come back to that. We have it written down, but we won't be taking care of our notes or we'll be doing it very, very chaotically. We'll just get lost. We'll have to look around. If we don't take care of our notes, we won't know what to put our hands in. So we need to refactor our notes. And this can be done in three types of containers, or in three types of containers, as you can call

it corporatively. And the first one is a simple to-do list. What is important is what we should put in there. So we should put things in there that are not related to any term. This is something we would like to do someday. There is no connection with a specific day or time, it's just something you want to do as fast as possible, or maybe just for a while. It's very important that the whole GTD is built on the To Do list from Alena, but that she says in the book: "You have a list of phones to make, shopping to do, things to do at home, things to do in the garage, etc. and she mentions

what lists are needed. But he doesn't know what lists are needed. I need one list, which is called To Do. It's important to realize that this system is supposed to work for us, not for this system. So if we need a new list, we'll create it. If it becomes unnecessary, we'll delete it. I wrote about this on my blog and I get emails for years now asking what lists should I have to start doing it the way I do it. I say, "Where do I come from? It's up to you. Everyone should add and delete their own lists as needed. And there could be a lot of things. And this solved a very important problem

for me. I'm a programmer, so I have one set of set of set of my wedding and funeral. And there was always a problem. I got married, and people of my age also got married, so there were a lot of weddings. I came back from the wedding at 5 am, set of my wedding, bang bang bang, to the wardrobe, and the wedding was over. And what? At 5 pm I open the wardrobe, take it out, and set of my wedding is like this. Since I started using these lists, I put on a garland and write "give the garland to the laundry". I wake up the next day, I get better, the next day I go

to the laundry and give the garland back. And it has never happened that I went to a dirty, dirty garland at a wedding just because I had it on the list. Otherwise, I always forgot about it. The second type of containers or containers for notes is a calendar. Everyone probably uses a calendar. I used a calendar long before I started to be interested in anything related to productivity. The problem was that I had everything in my calendar. And there should be only things related to the date. So a visit to the doctor, a bill to pay, a bill to pay, or when I buy something on Allegro, I write it down for two weeks. The goods from Allegro should arrive, when I issue an invoice, I set it for

two weeks, the invoice should be paid. Everything that has to do with any date or hour, lands in such a calendar. And again, it is important that there can be many calendars, just like a list. I have one calendar of my own, the second for a dedicated blog, the third for a podcast, the fourth for performances, the fifth for training, the sixth with my wife, I share it for some common affairs. It will turn out that one of them is useless, so I just delete it. I add, delete, add, delete. It's very flexible. You don't have to get too attached to it. And the third thing is just a regular notepad. In my case, it's

OneNote. And it's for everything else. Some decisions to be made. I even have a decision why I installed Windows 8 instead of Windows 7. Probably neither one nor the other is too popular among you. I have such things, why do I have such a car and not another one? Why do I have such a computer and not another one? When I had a computer that I hated, for two years I collected in my notebook reasons for the fact that I hate it. That it's fucking heavy, that it's a bit too slow, that it has too little USB, that it has an unlit keyboard. And this list was building, building, building. Finally, fortunately, it broke down.

And I bought the next computer. And you know what it's like to buy a computer from a computer scientist, taken out of life for two weeks. And I just poured it and jumped, opened this notepad, I had the requirements of my royal computer, which I will not hate, because it will have 4 USB, it will have 16 GB of RAM, etc. I bought this in half an hour. The logo is specially sealed, because I don't like it either, but I started doing it for two weeks. And that's it. I have some notes about the books I've read. Why read a book if I'll forget what was in it? I even write down a few sentences

about what the book was about. About a movie or a TV series. Everything is there, I even have my dreams there. It was very useful to me in practice when I realized that sometimes something comes to my mind that I can buy someone. Some idea for a gift. So I made a note of an idea for a gift. Once I was talking to my brother, I remember it was March, and he told me that he really likes Dorses. and he would like to have Dorsów records, he has money, but he is sorry to give them away because he doesn't have a tower. December comes, Christmas, I open my list of presents, I look at Michał,

Dorsów record, so I bought him these records, he opens this gift, in December, so it was eight months later, "Dude, how did you know, I really wanted to have these records, but it was a pity for the money." He says, "Well, you told me yourself." "When?" I say, "In March." "So what the fuck?" I have it all there. For my wife, when I watch a program "Mr Gadget" on a cotton-leaf hat, a painting mirror with a flashlight, and she says "Oh!" I immediately go to the list. And I have gifts for her for the next four years. If not, I always had a problem that I either forgot about someone's birthday or something, now I have it in my calendar, or I didn't know what to buy.

Now I know, I have a whole year to think about it. If not, I usually pay for it. If we have it all planned out, noted, the notes are in order, then we have to finally plan what to do next. What we want and what we don't want to realize, because unfortunately, we can't do everything. First of all, we have to realize that the New Year's resolutions don't work. They are very trendy for some reason, but I don't know why the decision stops working on January 1st and I'm throwing them in three weeks, on November 8th. I hope it will work better than the New Year's resolutions. And we need to assess our capabilities realistically

based on what we do every day, how much we would like to do, how much we are able to do and give ourselves a little more than we think we can. It will be possible because it will be an ambitious plan. If we give ourselves too much to do, then nothing will come out of us, we will demotivate ourselves, "I was on this path and it is very sad", but even sadder is thinking to yourself "I don't have to do anything because it's not that bad in my life". They can always be better and you have to strive for it. And such a sitting is very lazy and a lazy person just wastes time, which,

as I mentioned, is the most valuable resource that Bozia gave us. Okay. And you have to realize that time is on my side. It may not work out. I do a lot of things and I succeed a lot, but a lot of things don't work out for me either. If I hadn't done anything, I would have succeeded in nothing, but I would have succeeded in nothing. I wanted to be a prelegent for a long time. I had my first presentation in 2008, so 8 years ago. I didn't sleep 3 nights before the presentation, 3 nights after the presentation and for 4 years I was calm. Then I tried again, I think 4 years have passed,

okay, man, get it together, try again. I tried again, I failed again, I cried a little again, I was calm again. Then it turned out that my wife is pregnant and I had an argument that I convinced myself that I would be ashamed to go out and talk to some cool people. And with that attitude I went out and it worked. And I waited for it for 4 or 5 years, and it was still happening. Another time I really wanted to have a nice conference in Białystok. Nothing happened there, in fact, those white bears were walking on the streets. Programmers meet once in a while, but generally there is poverty everywhere to the right from

Wisła. I thought to myself, it would be nice to hold a conference here four years ago. So I talked to people who held conferences in other cities, I gained experience from them, I wrote down everything, even recordings from Skype, conversations I also archived somewhere in OneNote. I thought to myself, what kind of prelegents I would like to have, I even asked some of them, would you be willing to come to Białystok in the next X years to talk about something. And some of them wanted to be, because there was a list of prelegents. I thought to myself, where can I do it to make it special? I went to this place, talked to the owners

to see how much it would cost. I thought that sponsors are necessary. I talked to some companies, I had a list of initial sponsors who would probably be willing to invest money in it. And then I decided, no, my daughter is about to give birth to me, because it was at a similar time and I just closed it, I forgot about it. Three years later, the company comes and says: "You have money here, make a conference." I say: "Damn, I already have the whole plan." And we did it. This year it was better because we had additional editing, but a year ago it also worked out fine. And for three years, these notes were sitting

there. I wasn't sad that I didn't succeed or something like that. I just didn't even try. Some would say that I gave up. I just decided that "time is on my side" and that's it. When I wanted to make a podcast, I struggled with it for two years. From the idea of making a podcast to recording the first episode. Because it was stressful, because it was some unknown. But thanks to that, for these two years, something was still going on in my head. So when I thought about it, I did it, I already had everything. And the name, and the tagline, and the list of guests, and some jingle at the beginning and at the

end. In two years, everything happened by itself. Then it was just sitting down, recording, publishing and great. I didn't have so many things to do right at the beginning. And even this presentation, are there any prelegents here? Who's speaking? One, two, three, four. How long does it take you to prepare a presentation for a talk for an hour? From scratch to a ready-made, pre-trained presentation? A few months. Okay, so how... Okay. So there on the recording we have an extremist who's not preparing. With two sides, just...

Ah, ok. It's even harder without slides. I said it here in the presentation, the first time a year and a half ago, and the plan appeared on it even when it was written: 8th of February 2013, so quite a long time ago, and it was getting older. I spent maybe a minute a week on it, some ideas came in, I'll throw them in. Maybe 5 minutes a week and then something came up, there was a date, when I do it, from these notes to presentation with slides, pictures, everything is ready, it took 7 hours. So it was two evenings and I go and it's ok. Before that, it took me a lot of time. Just

like that parenting blog I wanted to create, I waited for a year and a half, because I knew that someday it would be time. I had posts written from 20 before I even bought a domain. I bought a domain, I put those 20 posts and I got bored. But it turned out that things happen by themselves and it's worth taking care of it and not having to worry that when I started doing something, you have to do it right now. Now it's all fashionable, you see 6, I see 9, you started it, you end it. It's not true, you started it, you started it, and when you end it, it's your business. Unless someone pays

for it, then you know the terms are. And the next thing, which is R, which is doing. And this is the most difficult and easiest at the same time. This is the easiest, because we have everything ready. Sit down, do. I know why, I know why, I know how, I know with whom, etc. But the most difficult, because this is the only thing that really requires time. Time that, of course, none of us has. And I've improved a lot in this matter, because for a long time it was like this, I was writing it down, I was thinking about it, I was organizing it, I was planning it, and then, of course, it turned out

that there was no time to do it. Until it came to me that my day looks like this. There are 24 segments, colored in different colors, 24 hours a day. There is some sleeping, then there is some washing, white breakfast, which is not very much to do, then there is red, which is work, white, which is a return from work for most people, green is a time with family, where it is also not appropriate that I do something else, and finally something yellow, expected before sleeping, I will sit down and make the world a little more beautiful. And it turns out that you have to clean the toilet, put the invoices, put the fridge on

the olive tree and all those things that should be done, but there was no time. Because I was busy all day, so when will I do it? When I did it in the evening, I just didn't want to do anything else. And a lot has changed when it turned out that the day really looks like this. During the dream nothing changes, because there is nothing, because no. But, in the time of the road to work, there is a yellow element, a piece for me. I work from home, so the road to work is 15 seconds. But if someone was to come, they could do a lot of things. In work, when I work as a

programmer, some compilation, some test run, some task, some question and wait for it to answer. There is some time everywhere. It doesn't have to be an hour. It's a minute here, two minutes here, three minutes here. Instead of going to Face and checking what happened to the dog's neighbor, I can put in an invoice, clean this fridge, clean this toilet, Thanks to that, the evening comes, the yellow time is for me, and I have nothing to do. I do what I want. If I want, I drink a beer, but if not, it turns out that one or two hours a day is a lot of time. And you can do a lot of things. There

are a few practices that help you tune it even more. There is a rule of two minutes. which says that when you receive a thought or a task and its execution takes less than two minutes, then do it right away. Because you are already out of context of what you did now. Before you write it down on a sheet, before you get back to what you did now, these two minutes have already passed, so do it now. And it happened to me at the time when I started using this principle, two very interesting things happened in the same week. The first one was when I was just passing the OCE safety period. I had my

dream car, I crashed it a bit because I thought I could have a child, but I couldn't. And it turned out that I had a 10 year old OCE 2800. I was very sad about it, because it was twice as much as a year before. I thought, okay, I'll go to Link 4. They said that Link 4 is 1100 and that's fine, I'll take it from you. And in the calendar, because before I started to apply this rule, I had everything in the calendar, I wrote to myself: "Tomorrow, because today I will not call, I will call the current insurance company to resolve the OECD contract." I don't know if you know, but I didn't

know then that if the OECD contract is not resolved, it will automatically extend itself, and not that I have to extend it. So I moved it in the calendar, I moved it for two months, and finally I started to apply this rule, I go to this calendar, today I look from the phone to the insurance company, well, I'll call, because it will probably take a while. He calls me and says: "Good morning, I'm running out of money at your place. I'd like to settle a deal, because I already have a contract signed with Link4." "When is it going to end?" "It was Monday, I think. It ended on Friday." "Unfortunately, it's too late. You'll call

me in a year." "What the fuck? 2800 at their place, 1100 at Link4's. I've done it myself." But I thought, it's too late, I hid the rule of two minutes in my pocket, I dressed up and I went to the office with tears in my eyes. Fortunately, it was the security company that had a office in Białystok. I went to that office, almost stunned, and then in a breaking voice to the lady I say: "How can it be? I don't really have money, if I had it, I would have been at your place, and I didn't go to Link 4, and my child is about to be born, etc. " "You know what, I was

at work on Friday, so I put it on my datebook for the Friday date, bang, the agreement is settled, you don't do anything more, you have to remember." and it was done. If I had done it a day later, there would be another woman there, because it would not be possible to undo it. One day had to be done that day. I thought to myself: "Wow, I'm using it for the first day, and now 2,800 to go." Two more days passed. I look, I call... I have to call the dentist and make an appointment. I hate talking to the dentist over the phone. So I took it for 13 months and for two days, and

for a week, and for two days. And it was wandering in my calendar for 13 months. I thought, okay, I'll call him. I called, I made an appointment, I went to him. He's looking, looking. "You weren't supposed to be at my place 13 months ago, I've been there for a long time, what's up?" "If you came back in a month, we'd be in trouble, but only channel-based." Wow! Three days of using it, two 800s and teeth. You can't argue with that. It works. The second practice is that, as I showed, the yellow one in the back, before sleeping, you can also try to move the yellow one forward. After getting up, before any other activities.

I set this alarm, it's on the fifth, motivational text, I woke up at 4:30 and it actually works. I wake up in the morning, everyone is sleeping, no one is on Facebook, on Twitter, so I don't even know what to go there for. I get up, everyone is sleeping, I look at the whole block, it's dark, and I'm sitting here, it's so motivating. They are sleeping, and I'll do something. You just sit down and do an hour or an hour and a half, as much as you would need five such evenings before, because a person is tired. Usually, if you want to get up at 5 am, it's more important than the work we have to do afterwards. So there's motivation. So I thought, "OK, I'll do

it here, 100% from 5 am to 7 am, I'll go to work, I'll be a bit tired, but it's not hard, I'm not a corps of soldiers." It may seem extremely difficult, and it was for me, but there are a few ways to make it easier. First, drink two glasses of water before going to sleep. Then, by force of the will, we'll wake up earlier than we'd like. A beer works too. Secondly, put the alarm outside the reach of your hand. So that you have to... I saw recently... What? The alarm outside the reach of your hand? And you saw on this... Damn, Banggood or something like that, that it's ringing here, but to turn

it off, a drone is flying in the other room, which you have to catch. Well, then... No, no, I mean, when you have a small child like me, you have to turn it off as soon as possible. So I just had to get up to another closet and poke it. But the important thing is that when you get up, it's already past a second or two, and after waking up in such a way, not quite natural, for these one or two seconds we are like a mongrel who just wants to sleep, nothing more, nothing comes. These two seconds and we won. If we drank water a lot earlier, we still have to go out, so

we won too. It's important to go to sleep early, because I experienced it myself, but it's impossible to sleep 5 hours before 10 and expect it not to come back. It did for me, so now I sleep normally. But for a long time... What? I sleep at least 7 hours a day now. And it was a terrible experience for me. But it turned out that life is so much better then that I'd rather not do anything and sleep longer. And now, what are the advantages of this approach? The advantage is actually one, because I have been stressed all the time for a long time in my life. It turned out that this stress came from

the fact that I did not know if I would do something, if I would do something, if I would not forget something. And now I'm just going in the direction of some, damn, this or that, I'm just fucking stressed out lately. I'm going to be stressed out again, but there's nothing like stress. I have everything done before, I have time for everything, and if I don't want to do something, I just don't do it, because I'll do it in three years. And it really works that way. And the advantage is one. Now the disadvantages, because unfortunately they are also there. David Allen from Getting Things Done listens, watches interviews, meets people, he writes it in

his own book. It seems to me that he has long gone beyond the machine between a healthy man with blood and bones, full of emotions, and a robot that can only He said that even his wife's communication is done through a delivery box and a receiving box. So if his wife wants him to buy a bun in the store, he has to put a task in the incoming task box, because otherwise he won't do it. This is, in my opinion, a little too far. Somewhere this border between an ordinary man and a robot should be quite clear. The next thing is... I'm completely addicted to my phone and I'm very convinced of it, but I'm

not able to find any alternatives to it, to have it all with me. I would probably have to carry some big technical block with me. And it was related to something like that. Once I had such a great Nexus 4, great phone, straight from Google, all glass, and all glass. It was 30 centimeters away and pfff. Before the new one arrived, three weeks passed and I was like a child in the fog. I left the house, stood in front of the cage, I didn't know where to go. I was wondering what was going on. I felt fine with my phone, even now I have it in my bag, because it can't go further than 5

meters. This is a big disadvantage for me, but there is no alternative. We saw the alternative in the Black Mirror series. It was a path that humans can follow, that they will have 17 terabytes of information in their brain, they will remember everything, but they showed it in such a way that we wouldn't infect ourselves. Another disadvantage is unfortunately people and their loved ones, our surroundings. We become a secretary for them. My wife is not here, so I'll call my wife, my mom, my friend. He saw that something had changed. That I'm not angry, that I'm doing everything I was supposed to do, that I'm not forgetting anything and what's going on? "Remind me in

two weeks to call the doctor." Or "Write down in your notes a phone number to your dad and tell him that in two days you'll remember that you have to do something." And there's only one rule: the sooner you show up, the better. It will end anyway, because you can't get more than one person with this system unless someone wants to be a secretary. I'm listening. It's being streamed. But she doesn't watch it, she's seen it already and without this gesture it was... I can't hear you. Sooner or later you have to tell people that you like the site, you can help them, configure it, show them the tools, the methodology, show them the link to the stream, see how it can be done,

but don't let them use it that way. Because all these lists are very fast, no one even fills them if more than one person starts to think about it. And then, another disadvantage. is that at some point we can stop controlling the present moment. We can only keep thinking: "I did something great and tomorrow will be great". And there is no such thing as "now". There is a concept of mindfulness. No, it's not Buddha, because he's too skinny. I thought it was Buddha. Anyway, someone is sitting in a Turkish chair and thinking. And it's about controlling their present moment. That this present moment is also important. And it came to me in a very painful

way. Once I was playing with my daughter, who was three years old at that time. We were playing and suddenly she said: "Dad, are you bored?" I thought: "What? Why?" "Well, you're bored." I assumed that I wasn't bored at all. I was, I was folding my blocks, but my thoughts were somewhere else. And since that day I was trying, and it was hard, but I'm doing it now. When I'm with my wife or daughter, I try to put my phone away for 3 meters. I'm glad I'm not watching this, because I would scream that it's a lie. But it's worth to realize that you have to think about what's happening now, that not only all

these great plans are being considered, but you have to consume them, and the time for consumption is here and now. And the next thing, and the last one when it comes to the drawbacks, I was saying that I was a programmer, but I wasn't since December. It was the best job I've ever had. I loved the company, I knew the owner for 12 years, but it turned out that I would either do the things I had come up with or work. So I thought to myself, well, I'll come back to the company next year and I quit my job in December. I didn't have any plans for the future. I just had a few things,

I'd do something and it would be fine. Fortunately, it's October now and it turned out that I did it. But there is a danger that when you start living your own plans, not related to any company or organization, but with yourself and your family, it will turn out that, let's say, I will either do it now or only after retirement. And after retirement I will have these ideas of 14 terabytes and I will not know what to do with them. It ended up like that for me. It took four or five years, I think, to come to the conclusion that I will not be able to do it after hours, I just have to do

it during the day. And you need to know that you might have to choose. Either your things that are great will be, or money for the pot. Or you need to save money. I saved money for a year, so that now I could keep it for a year if nothing worked out. And now if you want to read more about it, there are three books. The first one is the unfortunate David Allen, as I said, it's for high-level corporate managers, but it's a good starting point that can make you realize that you can do it differently than now. The second book, which is already legendary, is Stephen Covey's "Seven Habits of Effective Action". I will

admit that I read it to the third habit, because I came to the conclusion that I already know all of them. But I don't know, it's probably worth finishing it. And the third book I read when the presentation was over, a month later I got a book called "Your brain in action" by David Shroke. I got it as a gift from a good friend, who in many matters, when it comes to professional life, is for me even a guru, I could say. He gave me this book and said: "Be careful, it will change your life." And it turned out that I read it, read it, And there are such concepts as brainwave, I look, I

have it here in the presentation. There are words like "glowing", I have this word exactly in the presentation. I thought it was so thorny, it turned out that it is not, that it is in the book. And there are described the things I told you today, but in a scientific way. When some dopamine is released, when some noradrenaline, how to deal with it in some situation, that if you are stressed, stand up and call things: ham, damn, cutlet, chair, otherwise than they are actually called, it calms down. And why? That some stress, hormones in the brain say that it is not at all so. The brain starts to get angry, that you call it wrong

and forget about this stress. This book is worth reading, and it's not exactly about productivity, but a few things from my presentation have been confirmed there, after preparing it, and I'm sure I'll say them in this presentation. And I also recorded a podcast with a guy called Marcin Kwieciński. And I said at the beginning that I was on a 4-hour training of productivity, which I can say honestly changed my life. And it was him who did it. And these 4 or 5 years later he has long forgotten my existence, writes to him: "Listen, I was on your training 4 years ago, such a 4-hour training. Since then I do 10 times more than I did.

Come on, let's talk about it." So we talked, I recorded and it is worth listening to, in my opinion. So to sum up, You have to remember that, especially in Warsaw, because in the Middle East it is not a problem, that life is not only work, even if work is a hobby. If you want to do something cool, exactly related to what you do at work, then do it, but for yourself, in the evenings or mornings. We live in times when every creative person needs a lawyer. Soon it will be like this, or maybe it will be like this, that every creative person will need a technical person. We are lucky that we are these

technical people, so we can come up with something and do it ourselves. This is simply amazing. So we are very lucky that we are where we are. There is also another quote from Lao Tzu, The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. And before I allowed it publicly, I contacted a few bloggers, asked them what they thought about it, maybe some suggestions, etc. And these bloggers then wrote to me. Some of them didn't reply, didn't write their opinions. So then, as it became a bit popular, I used the links to them on the top. The blog recommended by the PR-Protecting Portal this week, this and some other name. And one of those bloggers called me

and said: "Maciek, thank you so much!" I said: "What for?" "You put me on the top of the website." "Ok, so what?" And I got a letter. Some mom and me, or dad and a kid. They wanted to interview me. I said: "That's great!" And it turned out that the parenting blogger dreamed of two things: a sample of a pimple cream and an interview. I just fulfilled this website's dream of this woman. And for two weeks I was so full of this simple fact that I did someone really well that it was very good for me. And it was really, it was, it was a few days. It's going to go away. And that's it.

And thank you very much. Diploma, wow, thank you. An axe. Does anyone have any questions? If there are no more presentations. Yes? One, one. Listen, I have a question. You can actually bring the whole GTD to the point where you dump all the tasks you have in your head and then you prioritize how much they are important and how much they are important and you choose the quarter where they are important and important. You didn't mention it at all. I didn't mention it because I have one measure. I don't know if I want to do it or not. If I want to do something, I do it, even if it's not important or safe, because it

will come back to me in three years. I've experienced that if I want to do something, I do it much faster and more productively. It will be useful, or not. We're at the security presentation. What if someone breaks in? And suddenly you'll take over your whole life, right? Someone will break in and take over my life? I mean, in what way? He'll know your every plan, right? But my plan is not secret. Ideas should be for free. It's about performance. No one will steal my performance. And what will you do if someone removes it from you? If someone removes it from me, I'll cry for another five years. I mean, I have a backup of

all this in several places, so I hope not, but... That's why I use only OneNote when I work with Microsoft. And you can only synchronize it on this shitty OneDrive. But I also have it on Dropbox somewhere, so I hope not. I have a question. When you showed the whole day graph and then you put it in the tabs where you can think about your things and not about work, in what sense do you lose focus on work and focus on your things? I lose focus on work, yes, but I was talking about what it is in cases. When something compiles for me, I lose focus because it compiles for me. I ask someone about something, I wait for an answer, I will not only think about what

he can answer, but I wait. Besides, maybe you are referring to this concept of magic flow in technical work. This is total bullshit, I learned to live without it, fortunately, and it gives more harm than good. Just because if someone pulls me out, it's poverty. And if I work in such a way that if someone pulls me out, I do the same thing again in 15 seconds. It's about doing something really tiny steps. If I do anything, I draw a list of things to do for the next 20 minutes. Tiny dots. Even if I program it, I create a class, I write tests, etc. Someone will pull me out, I look where I was, okay, I'm going on. Flow is unnecessary. A

blog with goals to do? I think that in your last podcast you talked to a guy who said he has a blog where he writes down all his goals and he always writes them down into three stages. Ah, okay, three stages in a blog. It's possible, but I admit that I'm recording this podcast but I don't listen to it, so maybe I forgot. I have a man who edits it for me and he often gets edited episode on Sunday evening. So even if something is wrong, I can't do anything about it. And then I don't have time for it. About the goal. About the goal. With Michał Szafrański. Yes, yes. But you can see that

he actually reached the goal because he made two balls on the book in three months. I would like to be there someday. Okay, there's nothing more. Thank you and enjoy your after.