The document discusses the challenges faced by project managers, including stress and burnout, and emphasizes the importance of managing mental energy for success. It highlights the use of the Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology to improve productivity by focusing on task management through tools like to-do lists and reviews. The author shares key strategies and insights to help individuals overcome productivity obstacles and achieve their goals.

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I Want My Life Back
What you really need to know to succeed
Kurt Vanhaesebrouck

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Project Manager, Sounds familiar?
• Constant Stress
• Feeling Helpless
• Complete Exhausted
• Hard to keep promises
• Always too late
• Procrastination
You may be suffering from burnout…

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a fool with a tool still a fool
• First I’ve focussed on the right productivity technique by studying the GTD methodology from
David Allen
• Isolate the essential GTD idea’s and bring them into practise for more then 3 month.
• And then define what I was missing in my toolset

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What I was
missing was
1 TO DO List

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Which experiences shall I share…
• What you really need to know to succeed
• Start-2-GTD
• GTD live
• GTD for Business Managers
• GTD of Project Managers
• GTD Training and coaching

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What Project Managers really need to know…
It’s all about managing your mental energy…
• “Time flies when you are having fun”
• “Learn from the past, but don't live in the past.” (Steve Maraboli)
• “A bad plan is better then no plan!” (Emanuel Lasker)
• Get addicted on completing tasks (before starting a new one )
• "Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress.
Working together is success." (Henry Ford)
ENERGY BOOSTERS

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What Project Managers really need to know…
It’s all about managing your mental energy…
• Stress
• Being Out of control
• Too many (unfinished) things on your mind
• Continuous (unimportant ) conflicts / discussions
• Failure
• Burnout !
ENERGY ZAPPERS

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Start-2-GTD
• Where to start (Identify)
• Let’s write down what’s on my mind (Mind dump)
• What have I done today (Daily review)
• After a week (Weekly review)
• Where can I optimise (Monthy review)
Start-2-GTD Identify Mind dump ...Daily review Weekly review
Monthly
review

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