How to Create YOUR Unique Productivity System Today

Over the last three years, I’ve been obsessed with productivity systems, yes literally obsessed. Ever since the fall of 2019, I’ve listened to and read every single podcast, every single interview, and every single talk of David Allen and consumed his books multiple times. I felt like he had all the answers I needed to live a happy and fulfilling life.

So I created these action lists, I made a project list with all the next actions, grabbed a small notebook to write down stuff every day, and did this long clarification and organization session afterward.

But come June 2020 I discovered Cal Newport and his more controlled, planned way of productivity. I immediately ditched Getting things done as I felt it was not working for me, more on that later in the video btw. I started to time block instead, manage my time instead of managing lists and it worked well for a year.

Then I discovered Tiago Forte and his ways of looking at productivity, which was more just in time and not allowing these big focus blocks to become massively productive. So now I got three conflicting methodologies, and three conflicting systems and I did not know what to do.

Then in November, I started to blog about my own productivity system called 1-Glance. But in February I read Antifragile and immediately…