What’s your Productivity Personality Type?

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I have a confession to make: I’m not a planner and I don’t have any real productivity system to speak of.

I’ve tried systems like David Allen’s Get Things Done and after a month of I gave up on them. Sometimes I felt more productive while using the systems, but when it came to assessing my overall productivity at the end of the day, I could see little difference.

So what did I do? I blamed myself. I thought of myself as “not good enough” or lacking the attention span necessary to keep track of everything. It seemed that the moment I wrote something down, or made some note on my computer, I’d never look at it again. It was only much later that I realized that what might be perceived as “not good enough,” was really just “different.” Some people like lists and priorities and systems, while others like to listen to their intuitions and see where that takes them. Read the Rest of This Article »