What can you do to make every day a productive day. This presentation reviews the strategies from Getting Things Done as well as my own thoughts and wisdom to make every day a PRODUCTIVE day.

1. Making Every Day a PRODUCTIVE Day
Michael Blachly
Director of Client Development
Looper Reed & McGraw

2. Is This a
Normal Day?

3. Are You Producing Results
or Measuring Busyness

4. What is a
Productive Day?

5. Create a Workflow for Your To Do List
Collect Process Organize Review Do

6. Collecting

7. Process!

8. Let’s Get
Organized! Do It
Add to
To Do List
Process &
Delegate It
Organize
File It
Delete It

9. Keep the Desk Clean!
(BE RUTHLESS)

10. Dealing With Paper Files
Homework
To Read
Someday
Priority To Do
Client Files

11. Dealing With Outlook

12. Organize Your Emails

13. Clean Out the Inbox!

14. Setup Rules

15. Setup Rules

16. Setup Rules

17. Keep Cleaning out the Inbox

18. Dealing with ad hoc work
AKA “Email Addiction”

19. Managing The
To Do List

20. Dealing with Outlook Tasks

21. Creating an Outlook Task

22. Creating an Outlook Task

23. Use the Outlook Sidebar Task List

24. Use Your Calendar as a Calendar
(not a to do list)

25. Dealing With Meetings

26. Dealing With
Meeting Notes

27. Create a Workflow
Collect Process Organize Review Do

28. Review Your Action Items
(Note: you probably won’t enjoy it as much as her)

29. Batching
Your To Dos

30. Prioritize Your To Dos

31. Get it Done!

32. Find Time For
Client Development

33. PRIORITIES
The Reality for Many High Deadlines
Email
Phone Calls
Billable
Hours
Major Deadlines
Things You Enjoy
Client
Development
No Deadlines
Things You Hate

34. Suggested Readings

35. Thank
You!
Michael Blachly
Director of Client Development
Looper Reed & McGraw