FS 276: Organizing Your Business

Panel:

Reuven Lerner

Kai Davis

Jonathan Stark

In this episode of the Freelancer’s Show, Reuven, Kai, and Jonathan talk about organizing your business. The panels discuss important points to stay organize and systemize in your business. Important topics covered are getting to inbox zero, scheduling, building good habits, clearing your to-do lists, keeping notes, organizing your thoughts. Lastly, the freelances talk about tips and technologies they use to keep on top of their tasks. This is a great episode for those who need the implement good practices to run a smoother business.

In particular, we dive pretty deep on: 

Why should I organize my business?
Finding important information
Losing important data
Email organization
Inbox zero - picking time to clean up
Building habits overtime
When you check email - Achieving to save time
Creating to-do lists within email
Task lists without inbox
Due dates on tasks
Remember the Milk app
Blocking out time for to-dos
Priority to-do lists
Notes
Brain Storms
Evernote 
Keeping a physical notebook
Using task managers like Trello 
Keyboard Short Cuts - aText
And much more!

Picks:

Reuven

Blog

Kai

Merlin Mann on Inbox 0
SaneBox 
The Life-Changing Magic Of Tidying Up
Kai's every day carry notebook
Kai's every day carry pen
Naomi (of Itty Biz) wrote this great article on staying productize on low energy days)
Text Expander

Jonathan

Getting Things Done by David Allen
Productive
Jonathan's recommended notebook
aText