There is a continuous infinite influx of knowledge and data especially in the medical field.
We have an ever-growing to-do lists and important dates and scattered academic and meeting notes all around us. We carry our digital devices sacredly as it contains all the data we live and breath in.
If you reflected for a minute on all your day-to-day tasks, to-do lists, adding an important to the calendar, your son's birthday gift.
How do you really manage your life?
Do you add everything to the calendar?
Do you add everything to the to-do task manager?
Where do you keep your files?
Can you quickly retrieve an important file when you need it?
While many absolutely swear by his methods, in his book Getting Things Done, David Allen teaches us 5 simple steps that can be applied to .. get things done!
But his concepts can be applied specifically to organize and manage our digital world.
By applying his 5 steps:
Capture
Clarify
Organize
Reflect
Engage
It is as Tiago forte described in his book, design your work, "your day to day workflow is a funnel with a wide top and narrow bottom"
You need to have a stellar trustworthy system of flowing all your info minute by minute, capturing what you need on the fly with no friction what so ever, knowing with no doubt that whenever you need to retrieve it, you will be able to do so quickly and with no hassle.
If for any instance deep inside you had any doubts about your own created system. your subconscious will resist and your memory will cling to that small details, like calling your old friend tomorrow as you promised him which can lead your memory to slip to prepare a file for an important meeting instead.
This cognitive offload of our important information from our brains into a trustable system that
we create can leave our
brains relaxed and be more creative to think freely.
While the concept is clear and straightforward. There are so many digital organization systems that you can utilize. and if you are not careful enough, you will end up creating a mind backyard where you capture and dump everything in it instead of pruning your digital brain garden to grow for fruitfulness.
Remember to tend to your digital brain garden and be mindful of the seeds you plant in it. Remember to Capture, Clarify, Organize, Reflect and lastly engage.
Happy pruning.
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