Course · IV — Action management

Building your system

Create or choose the system that runs your day: the four core questions, the command center as one possible answer, and the minimum to set up this week.

Full-course lesson IV — Action management

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You search three folders for a quote, reread the same email for the third time, and discover a forgotten request in the middle of a meeting. That is not a discipline problem: those are unclear places. A productivity system is simply a set of fixed places where you always know where to look, not a method to follow to the letter.

This lesson shows how to create your own system, or choose an existing one and adapt it. For repairing it when it breaks, see When the system breaks.

In the full lesson

  1. 1 The four questions
  2. 2 Create or choose
  3. 3 The command center, one possible answer
  4. 4 Three rules to make it last
  5. 5 Start small this week

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