What You Need To Create Your Very Own Productivity System

Podcast 144 In this week’s episode, I answer a question on developing a system that works for you.   Links: Email Me | Twitter | Facebook | Website | Linkedin Your Digital Life 3.0 Online Carl’s Time Sector System Blog Post The FREE Beginners Guide To Building Your Own COD System Carl Pullein Learning Centre Carl’s YouTube Channel Carl Pullein Coaching Programmes The Working With… Podcast Previous episodes page   Script   Episode 144   Hello and welcome to episode 144 of the Working With Podcast. A podcast to answer all your questions about productivity, time management, self-development and goal planning. My name is Carl Pullein and I am your host for this show.   This week, the question is all about building your own system, something I feel very passionate about because it’s only when you have a system that works for you that you can finally start to trust your system and when you trust your system you use properly that’s when you start to see huge increases in your productivity and your time management.   But first...   The early-bird discount for my latest Your Digital Life 3.0 course will be ending Tuesday 4 August at midnight PST (That’s LA time). Right now, if you have not enrolled in this amazing course, you can get it for $59.99–that’s a 20% discount on the normal price of $74.99.    Remember, with Your Digital Life you get a course that covers your whole digital life including your calendar, notes app, to-do list and cloud storage. PLUS... I also give you free access to my Complete Guide To Creating Your Goals and Email Productivity Mastery courses (which alone is worth $99.00)    So don’t miss out on this amazing offer. Remember this offer will be ending tomorrow at midnight LA time. So get yourself enrolled today. Full details of the course are in the show notes.    If you are already enrolled in the course, this is a free update and you do not need to do anything. The new, updated course is available for you in your dashboard on my learning centre right now.   Okay, it’s time for me now to hand you over to the mystery podcast voice for this week’s question.    This week’s question comes from Abdul. Abdul asks; Hi Carl, I’ve struggled for many years to find a productivity system that works. I’ve tried GTD and that is too complicated for me, I’ve tried a digital version of the Franklin Planner—which was okay, and I’ve tried so many other ‘systems’. Is there something wrong with me or do you know of any other systems that might work?   Hi Abdul, thank you for your question.   First up, I can promise you there is nothing wrong with you. So many people I’ve met feel exactly the same way you do. That’s partly because there’s so much advice out there, it’s hard to know what works and what doesn’t work. Plus, the technology available to us today is changing so fast it’s hard to find a settled set of apps and really learn those before a new app comes out promising to revolutionise how we manage our projects and tasks.    The reality is, no one system will work for everyone. We are all different and that is a good thing. Life would be very boring if we were all the same; liking the same things and doing things in the same way.    I think it’s also a good thing we have so many different apps to choose from. With all this choice there are so many different ways we can build a system that will meet our own individual needs.    Of course, with choice comes confusion. We find ourselves asking if the tools we are using today are the best tools and wondering if there are better tools we could be using that would make out systems better. That is a dangerous way to think. That can lead to app switching which never creates a trusted system. All app switching does is creates distrust and wastes a lot of time moving all your data from one app to a new app and then finding you have data, tasks and notes all over the place.   One of the best approaches is to do a little research on how successful people manage their time. Tr