


I was just in the throes of my new business and needed a way to organize my mind. Evernote was a great place to store those thoughts, ideas, and projections. I'm not going to tell you exactly what you need to do in this class. I'm going to give you some examples of what's worked for me, what's worked for my clients, and I'll give you some used cases so that you can apply our system to your own. This is absolutely your system, your hub, and I want you to do with it what you will. After this class, I hope you take just the first step to creating your own personal productivity system.

I'm so excited you decided to take this class. Find Your Pain Points: So, a pain point is really simple in the productivity space. It's something that is annoying, it is something that's repetitive and that can be automated, or it's something that detracts from spending time with your family, your friends, and doing the things you want to do. Retrieving your bank statements and bills can be a pain point, sending your 1099's or W-2s to your accountant, finding recipes to cook a meal for the day. People do try to create productivity systems without really sitting down and assessing what their needs are. That systematic productivity approach that I just completely disagree with. Spending the time to do this now will save you so much more time in the long run. So, it's really important to do this now, and then work to set up the systems that will resolve these pain points for you. The very first thing you should do in trying to identify and assess your pain points is get out a piece of paper or do this exercise digitally. Identify 10 pain points, 10 things that annoy you, 10 things that feel like minutiae, 10 things that you hate to do, and just jot those down. You may hit on some pain points as you go through a day.
