Getting Things Done - How do you manage your life?

Question

Hello all,

I pride myself on my level of personal organization (as I'm sure many you do as well). It's how I maintain a strenuous day job in commercial construction mgt, my real estate side hustle, a long distance girlfriend, a busy travel schedule, and still get a good night of rest.

Here's an outline of my principles/tools

Influences:

Getting Things Done by David Allen

Procrastinate on Purpose by Rory Vaden

Deep Work by Calvin Newport (probably one of the best books I've ever read)

Energy Management before Time Management (nutrition, rest, movement)

Tools:

Bullet Journal (this is new to my system & I love it- I'm a pen & paper kind of guy)

Google Reminders (whenever one of my trusted systems aren't present)

Google Inbox (vs. Gmail. For those of you who don't know inbox... it is much different)

General reference filing/binders

Google docs (I use this heavily for personal reference & collaborating with my business partner who's a few states away)

Tickler file system (coming soon...)

I was curious what other people out there use to organize their lives? What systems/tools? What are your influences? What books do you recommend?

Allie Pfannenstiel · Answer

i am also pretty obsessed with keeping organized. I mostly use apps:

A Tracker: time

This is an app that I use all day to let me know whether or not I'm maximizing my time through out the day. I have major categories that are necessities, leisure, work, and then sub categories like eating, sleeping, social media, house searching etc. I find by doing this that I can stay accountable and create opportunity in my day to see where I can better place my energy.

Mint: finances

I currently track every expense from a bottle of water to airplane tickets. I use my own excel spreadsheets because I'm quite anal about it but i have categories and subcategories like my time to see where I can save and place into accounts like financial freedom, long term saving for spending, continuing education, etc.

MyFitnessPal: health

There is sort of a trend here as you can see. I use this app to record what I eat throughout the day to make sure the amount of protein, carbs, and fat are in proportionate amounts.