Productivity And Time Management: Organize Your Life

Become efficient in personal productivity, time management, file management, and your work.

What you'll learn

Be able to take on every day with precision because everything is already laid out for you.

Create a system that works best for you and allows you to be productive.

Learn methods to be more effective with your organizing so that you never have to think about it.

Automate tasks that will free up your time to do the things that matter to you (like binge watching the entire Star Trek franchise… if that’s your thing).

Requirements

A positive attitude and a willingness to learn new things is absolutely required for this course. Basic computer skills will also help you get the most out of this class when we reach the lectures pertaining to your digital life. I’ll be using my Apple computer for these lessons, but you should be able to pick up the basic concepts and apply this to whatever machine you use.

Calendar (any calendar app or physical calendar will suffice)

Trello (free)

Dropbox (free until 2GB, plans available thereafter)

iCloud (free until 5GB, plans available thereafter)

Airmail ($9.99 USD, Mac only), or any mail clients that allow setting up "actions"

Numbers (any excel program will suffice)

Description

A positive attitude and a willingness to learn new things are absolutely required for this course. Basic computer skills will also help you get the most out of this class when we reach the lectures pertaining to your digital life. I’ll be using my Apple computer for these sections, but you should be able to pick up the basic concepts and apply this to whatever machine you use. The powers you’ll acquire from this course: * Be able to take on every day with precision because everything is already laid out for you. * Create a system that works best for you and allows you to be productive.* Streamline the everyday organization of documents and media files.* Learn methods to be more effective with your organizing so that you never have to think about it.* Automate tasks that will free up your time to do the things that matter to you (like binge-watching the entire Star Trek franchise… if that’s your thing).My students are looking to increase their productivity by putting systems in place that will streamline their everyday tasks. They want to free up their schedule and eliminate the distractions of a cluttered lifestyle so they can focus on their projects and dream life.Overwhelmed with tasks, documents, ideas, things, etc? Take this course.Need someone to come in and just “save you from this mess?” Take this course.Already slightly organized, but want to reach your final form? Take this course!Some of the tools I’ll be using in my lectures:Calendar (any calendar app or physical calendar will suffice)Trello (free)Dropbox (free until 2GB, plans available thereafter)iCloud (free until 5GB, plans available thereafter)Airmail ($9.99 USD, Mac only, any mail client with similar features will suffice)Numbers (any spreadsheet program will suffice)External Hard Drives

Overview

Section 1: INTRODUCTION

Lecture 1 1.1 Course overview

Lecture 2 1.2 - What you need to get started

Lecture 3 1.3 - What’s the purpose of this?

Lecture 4 1.4 - What you can expect

Section 2: TIME MANAGEMENT

Lecture 5 2.1 - Intro Time Management

Lecture 6 2.2 - Setting up your day (activity)

Lecture 7 2.3 - Blocks concept (activity)

Lecture 8 2.4 - Categorizing

Lecture 9 2.5 - Prioritizing

Lecture 10 2.6 - Recurring tasks & keeping up

Lecture 11 2.7 - Feeling more productive

Section 3: PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Lecture 12 3.1 - What is project management?

Lecture 13 3.2 - Introduction to Trello

Lecture 14 3.3 - Creating a board (activity)

Lecture 15 3.4 - Be more effecient daily

Section 4: DIGITAL FILE MANAGEMENT

Lecture 16 4.1 - Introduction to digital file management

Lecture 17 4.2 - Backup systems

Lecture 18 4.3 - Dropbox file labeling (activity)

Lecture 19 4.4 - Working with documents

Lecture 20 4.5 - Password management

Lecture 21 4.6 - Feeling protected

Section 5: DIGITAL MEDIA MANAGEMENT

Lecture 22 5.1 - Introduction to digital media management

Lecture 23 5.2 - Organizing folders

Lecture 24 5.3 - Organizing photos

Lecture 25 5.4 - Organizing video files

Lecture 26 5.5 - Managing social media posts

Lecture 27 5.6 - Back up automations

Lecture 28 5.7 - Keep it up

Lecture 29 5.8 - Feel empowered

Section 6: EMAIL MANAGEMENT

Lecture 30 6.1 - What about my email?

Lecture 31 6.2 - Types of email addresses (activity)

Lecture 32 6.3 - Creating an email system

Lecture 33 6.4 - Reading email fast

Lecture 34 6.5 - The 80/20 rule

Section 7: FINAL FRONTIER

Lecture 35 7.1 - Welcome to the final frontier

Lecture 36 7.2 - Personal life management (bonus lecture)

Lecture 37 7.3 - Thank yourself

Overwhelmed with tasks, documents, ideas, things, etc? Take this course.,Need someone to come in and just “save you from this mess?” Take this course.,Already slightly organized, but want to reach your final form? Take this course!