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3 New Takes On How To Get Things Done (Better)

Do you wonder about ways to be more productive, efficient and better in managing your time?

Here are three new-ish pieces of content that have both caught my attention this week and provide very valuable advice on the topics of productivity and organization:

1. The Art of Stress-Free Productivity: David Allen at TEDxClaremontColleges. This is a great TEDx talk from the master of productivity, David Allen (author of Getting Things Done and Making It All Work).

2. Bullet Journal. Into notebooks and shying away from smartphone apps like Evernote to keep track of your tasks and work? Bullet Journal may be the solution for you (and all you need is a notebook and a pen).

3. The Authentic Swing. This is name of the latest book from Steven Pressfield (The War of Art, Do The Work, etc…). It’s a book about how he wrote his smash hit, The Legend of Bagger Vance. If you click on the link, he is offering a very special 3-part video series called, Foolscap, that is a great series about how to create a story and framework in a very simple (and, yes, productive) way.

Now, over to you: what are you best tips and tricks for productivity?

Mitch Joel

Mitch Joel lives at the intersection of technology, business transformation and consumer culture. He is the Executive Director of Next Era Institute, a strategic intelligence platform helping leaders understand the forces reshaping business, technology, culture and society. The Institute identifies which shifts matter, explores their wider significance and translates them into strategic direction and momentum. Mitch is also a globally recognized keynote speaker. He has delivered thousands of presentations across both B2B and B2C industries to organizations including Google, Walmart, LEGO, Shopify, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble and Unilever. Strategy Magazine has called him “one of North America’s leading visionaries.” Mitch built his career by working directly inside the waves of change that reshaped modern business. He founded and built a digital marketing agency that worked with some of the world’s largest brands and was later acquired by WPP, where he served as President of a firm operating in 25 countries with almost 3,000 employees. Mitch is the bestselling author of Six Pixels of Separation and CTRL ALT Delete, and the host of Thinking With Mitch Joel, one of the longest-running business podcasts in the world. His writing and commentary appear in outlets including Harvard Business Review, Fast Company and Inc. Magazine. He is a member of Dr. Marshall Goldsmith’s 100 Coaches and was named to the Thinkers50 Radar. Mitch also hosts Groove – The No Treble Podcast, documenting the oral history of electric bass players. Mitch is also Co-Founder of ThinkersOne, a platform that enables companies to bring personalized thought leadership from world-class experts into meetings, events and off-sites in focused 15-minute bursts.