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Productivity expert Mike Williams joined us from Southern California to share the basics of his "Doing to Done" approach and how these simple yet impactful principles can be applied using OmniFocus.
Mike Williams is a speaker, author, executive, and coach who helps leaders obtain small wins with a big impact on their lives and businesses. He gives people the actionable tools to succeed on their terms with less effort AND be at the top of their game in all areas of life.
Drawing on his extensive experience in the corporate world, Mike has developed an approach called Doing to Done designed to “decrease overwhelm and turn your chaos into clarity” that has been described as “refreshingly simple.” He shared highlights of this approach, including strategies for establishing a common ground and guided us through an exercise centred around the “Role Clarify Map.”
Mike has years of experience using OmniFocus. He and Tim Stringer shared how Doing to Done principles can be put into practice using OmniFocus and complementary apps.
00:00:00 - Welcome
00:00:35 - About Learn OmniFocus
00:03:30 - What's New
00:07:25 - Introducing Mike Williams
00:10:33 - Meet Mike Williams
00:11:44 - The Story of Doing to Done
00:20:41 - Question & Sip Break
00:21:04 - A Fresh Start
00:23:34 - The Practice of Practice
00:25:17 - Work Beats
00:28:41 - Recap | Terms & Tools
00:29:13 - Party in the Brain
00:30:56 - Exercise | Guided Mind Sweep
00:36:29 - You and Your Stuff
00:38:05 - Your Best Life
00:38:33 - Transforming Your Stuff
00:41:32 - Your Action System
00:42:06 - Role Clarity Map
00:48:16 - Exercise | Naming Your Roles
00:51:05 - Role Clarity Map
00:55:08 - Recap | Roles
00:56:35 - Mike's Contact Info
00:56:55 - Four Truths and a Lie
00:58:35 - Doing to Done with OmniFocus
00:59:21 - Structuring OmniFocus Using Roles
01:00:33 - Examples of Projects
01:10:14 - Examples of Single Action Lists
01:12:18 - Using Work Beats in OmniFocus
01:12:59 - Managing Agreements
01:13:35 - Appropriate Engagement
01:14:46 - Identifying Top Projects & Actions
01:17:56 - Dancing Between Digital and Paper
01:19:48 - Calendar Blocking and Batching
01:20:58 - Integrating OmniFocus and Calendar
01:21:51 - Custom Perspectives
01:24:25 - Templates for OmniFocus
01:26:02 - Q & A
01:34:26 - Wrap-Up
RESOURCES
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ABOUT MIKE WILLIAMS
Through his leadership roles with General Electric, The David Allen Company, and Zappos, Mike kept noticing that people were desperate for a better path to productivity to help them fight digital distractions, mind clutter, and wasteful uses of their time. But the only resources available involved complex approaches, reading thick self-help books, or participating in boring seminars. He knew a better way existed - one rooted in simplicity and realism. In his pursuit, he spent two decades working with thousands of people across different industries - from rocket scientists to business leaders to students to nonprofit organizations.
Today, Mike assists clients using an effective coaching methodology that’s far from complicated. He also used what works to create Doing to Done-Productivity Made Simple, Illustrated for Busy People Like Us, a visually engaging book about quick wins with significant impacts. Bringing a bit of Southern California energy to his work, he firmly believes that managing stress through better productivity shouldn’t be so stressful.
FOUR TRUTHS AND A LIE
Mike has had his share of interesting experiences, including four of the following five epic accomplishments:
- He’s seen Bruce Springsteen 30+ times.
- He swam from Alcatraz to San Francisco.
- He met Oprah Winfrey.
- He owned a funky thrift store with his wife.
- He lived in an airstream park for three years with a llama named Marley.
Any guesses about which four are true and which one is a lie? Watch the video and find out!
1 авг 2024
