Most of us are either more predisposed toward contemplation or action. As with most subjective ideologies, whichever one we prefer is the most correct one. Funny how that work, isn't it. But truthfully, there is an essential relationship between contemplation and action that helps us live in the sweet spot of intentionality and effectiveness. We all want to thrive and when we figure out the relationship between contemplation and action, and implement a strategy to live in that balance, we can each truly flourish.

I've been on a life-long journey to discover the best task-management system to find that balance, and I'd love to share some of what I've learned—and am learning—with you. But, let me offer a huge preface before continuing. Please don't read any of this as prescriptive. I get so fatigued reading all of the universally prescribed "wisdom" that's on the interwebs. This is my subjective opinion, and it is fallible. But maybe this framework will be a helpful guide as you discover your own best-practice thinking for thriving in 2018.

Converging Processes

I have never found the perfect organization system to move ideas to action. What you'll see below is a combination of a few practices that other people—much smarter than me—have come up with. I've created a bastardized version that works best in my routine.

A few years ago I stumbled onto a task list organization process called Bullet Journal. I loved the process they recommended and quickly implemented this practice, with a few minor preference adjustments. It's the best mechanism I've found to check tasks off the list and keep myself organized. It worked really effectively for a while, but I started to notice that my weekly process was missing some of the intentionality and goal driven action I desired.

Early in my 20's I read the book Getting Things Done by David Allen, but failed to apply the rigorous process with any real discipline. A great friend and one of the people I've learned the most from when it comes to increasing

intentionality in my own life is a brilliant guy named Sean Johnson. If you don't follow him, start now here. I promise you'll thank me later. He actually put into practice the system of Getting Things Done and his diligence has really paid off. He has helped a lot of people implement this effective strategy and built a deck with the basics of it here.

Long story short, Sean inspired me to walk back through Allen's system and evaluate what aspects of the GTD process could benefit my life, and I'm so glad I did. What you see below is the hybrid self-leadership system that I use each week. I'll quickly walk through the 6 sections of my weekly process, and if I miss any details that would be helpful please feel free to reach out with any questions.

As I said earlier, this is not meant to be prescriptive, just see if any of the concepts resonate, apply what works for you, and disregard the rest. And whether any of this is helpful or not, choose to make 2018 your most intentional and effective year yet. You've got this!

*The info below is an amalgamation (I love that word!) of the last few weeks of my journal sections, rather than the actual work for this one week. It has also been edited to remove any thoughts, notes or processes covered in NDAs with client companies.