Personal Productivity: AALL 2020

What the Swedes, the Japanese, and the Minimalists Can Teach Us About Instruction

Traditionalist

• Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity, David Allen
  • Capture or corral your stuff
  • Clarify the things to do
  • Organize by category and priority
• Suggestion: Productivity 101: A Primer to the Getting Things Done (GTD) Philosophy, Lifehacker.com

Globe Trotter

• The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up & Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying-up, Marie Kondo
  • Organize by category
  • Does this spark joy?
  • Touch everything
• AALL webinar - Change Your Syllabus, Change Your Life
• Suggestion:
  • Ultimate Free Comprehensive KonMari Checklist, Squirrels of a Feather blog
  • How to Use Marie Kondo’s Decluttering Principles in Your Business, SCORE, Small Business Administration

Minimalist

• New Minimalism: Decluttering and Design for Sustainable Intentional Living, Cary Telander Fortin & Kyle Louise Quilici
  • Reduce the flow of stuff coming in
  • Simplifying - make time management easier
  • Eliminate unessential
• Minimalism: A Documentary About Important Things (Netflix)
• TILT Higher Ed, Transparency in Learning and Teaching
• Suggestion: Digital Minimalism, Cal Newport

Nature Lover

• Eat That Frog: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time, Brian Tracy
  • Your frog – biggest, most important task
  • Eat the ugliest frog first
  • Don’t spend too much time looking at the frog
• Suggestion: How to GYST, Laura Hutchinson
  • YouTube channel

Angst Ridden

• The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning, Margareta Magnusson
  • Think about the people you leave behind – do not burden them with your stuff
  • Talk to your friends and family
  • Will anyone be happier if I keep this?
• Suggestion: PDF Summary, 12min Team

Pandemic Planning

• Focus: Use Different Ways of Seeing the World for Success and Influence, Heidi Grant Halvorson & E. Tory Higgins
• The Crisis We Needed, Cat Moon, CALIcon2020 keynote (YouTube)

Common Themes

• Suggestions
  • Good Enough Now: How Doing the Best We Can With What We have is Better Than Nothing, Jessica Pettit
    • Her mantra: Do the best you can with what you have some of the time
    • YouTube channel
  • Feck Perfuction: Dangerous Ideas on the Business of Life, James Victore
    • Creativity and play are essential to work

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