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how to get going on your next project 🎯 GTD's natural planning model and Obsidian tutorial

Overcoming Procrastination with the Natural Planning Model

In this video, the speaker discusses how to overcome procrastination using the natural planning model. The model consists of five steps: defining your purpose and principles, envisioning your outcome, brainstorming, organizing, and determining your next actions.

Defining Your Purpose and Principles

  • Start with your why to define what success is.
  • Knowing your purpose allows you to determine criteria for decision making.
  • Purpose helps align resources and get motivated.
  • Clarity on why we're doing something expands our options by allowing us to think creatively.
  • Define principles that reflect what you value and standards for behavior.

Envisioning Your Outcome

  • Visualize a successful outcome in detail.
  • Use all senses to make it more vivid.
  • Identify potential obstacles and plan how to overcome them.

Brainstorming

  • Generate as many ideas as possible without judgment or evaluation.
  • Use mind maps or other visual tools to organize ideas.

Organizing

  • Categorize ideas into actionable items, reference material, or incubation items.
  • Create a project plan with clear next actions that are specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART).

Determining Your Next Actions

  • Choose one action that will move the project forward and commit to doing it within 24 hours.
  • Review project plan regularly and update as needed.

Overall, the natural planning model provides a structured approach to overcoming procrastination by breaking down a project into manageable steps. By defining your purpose and principles, envisioning your outcome, brainstorming, organizing, and determining your next actions, you can move forward with confidence and achieve success.

The Natural Planning Model

This section discusses the natural planning model, which is a process for organizing and executing projects. It involves five steps: purpose, outcome visioning, brainstorming, organizing, and next actions.

Purpose

  • The first step in the natural planning model is to define the purpose of the project.
  • This involves identifying what you want to achieve and why it's important.
  • Understanding your purpose can help you stay motivated and focused throughout the project.

Outcome Visioning

  • The second step is to envision the outcome of the project.
  • This involves imagining what the end product will look like and how people will react to it.
  • Envisioning the outcome can make it easier to work towards your goal.

Brainstorming

  • The third step is to brainstorm ideas for the project.
  • This involves writing down every idea that comes to mind without judging or criticizing them.
  • Aim for quantity over quality during this stage.

Organizing

  • The fourth step is to organize your ideas into components, priorities, and sequences.
  • This involves determining what needs to happen in order for the project to be successful and breaking it down into manageable tasks.
  • How you organize your ideas will depend on the specific project.

Next Actions

  • The fifth and final step is to identify next actions that can be taken immediately.
  • These should be small actionable steps that move you closer towards completing your goal.
  • Breaking down larger goals into smaller tasks can reduce stress and anxiety associated with tackling a large project.

Overall, using the natural planning model can help individuals stay organized while working on a project. By defining their purpose, envisioning outcomes, brainstorming ideas, organizing those ideas into manageable tasks, and identifying next actions, individuals can work towards completing their goals in a more efficient and effective manner.

Creating a Project Template in Obsidian

In this section, the speaker explains how to create a project template in Obsidian.

Steps to Create a Project Template

  • To create a template, go to the folder where you want to save it and right-click on it. Click "New Note" and give it a name.
  • Write out your natural planning model for the project.
  • If you already have a template created, click on "Insert Template" and select the desired template.
  • The speaker's project file template includes purpose, principle, outcome visioning, idea dump, next actions, and draft.

Starting a New Note for an Active Project

In this section, the speaker explains how to start a new note for an active project in Obsidian.

Steps to Start a New Note

  • Go to "Projects Active" folder.
  • Start a new note for the project you want to work on.
  • Click on "Insert Template" and select your project file template.
  • Fill out each section of the natural planning model with relevant information about your project.

Defining Purpose and Principles of Your Project

In this section, the speaker explains how to define purpose and principles of your project using natural planning model in Obsidian.

Steps to Define Purpose and Principles

  • Understand why you're doing this project by defining its purpose. This includes both its purpose (why this project needs to be produced) and principles (the standards and values that impact how and what you produce).
  • Write down what is your purpose in making your video or any other type of content.
  • Define principles that will guide you throughout the process of creating content.

Outcome Visioning for Your Project

In this section, the speaker explains how to envision the outcome of your project using natural planning model in Obsidian.

Steps to Envision Outcome

  • Envision what it will be like when this project is out in the world.
  • Define what the end will ideally look like, how you will ideally feel afterwards, how others will ideally respond and what else will result from the completion of this project.

Introduction

The speaker talks about their goals for the video and what they hope to achieve.

Goals for the Video

  • The speaker wants to create a video that is well done, well explained, and helpful for people.
  • They hope that their brother and close friends will watch the video and adopt the "getting things done" model.
  • The speaker also hopes to gain thousands of views on the video and earn YouTube ad revenue.

Idea Dump

The speaker discusses the idea dump phase of natural planning.

Idea Dump Phase

  • During this phase, brainstorming is encouraged without judgment or analysis.
  • Quantity over quality is emphasized.
  • The speaker mentions a book on page 73 that provides rules to remember when brainstorming.

Brainstorming Continued

The speaker continues brainstorming and uses Obsidian to organize their thoughts.

Using Obsidian for Brainstorming

  • The speaker uses Obsidian to keep track of their notes and ideas.
  • They copy and paste information from previous notes into their current note as needed.

Next Actions

The speaker discusses how they move from brainstorming to organizing next actions.

Organizing Next Actions

  • After brainstorming, the speaker may move on to organizing their thoughts or listing next actions.
  • They mention specific tasks such as finding a YouTuber who introduced them to a checklist plugin, learning more about community plugins, writing a blurb on community plugins, filming b-roll footage, and writing a script.

Drafting a Project Plan

In this section, the speaker discusses how to create a draft for a project plan and organize it in Obsidian.

Creating a Draft

  • The draft is the script of the video.
  • Write out the draft and pull it from stuff up here.

Organizing in Obsidian

  • Use Obsidian to organize projects.
  • Move completed projects to complete projects folder.
  • Access completed projects if needed.

Next Action: Complete Natural Planning Model

In this section, the speaker provides an action item for viewers to complete after watching the video.

Completing Natural Planning Model

  • Write down project's purpose and principles.
  • Do some outcome visioning and brainstorming.
  • Identify little next actions that are clarified, simple, and known.

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Support my channel by subscribing to Shortform using my affiliate link! Get 5 days free and a 20% discount on an annual subscription here: https://www.shortform.com/morganeua GTD Medium article: https://medium.com/@morganeua/regaining-control-over-my-calendar-and-my-life-eab317d08644 Nicole van der Hoeven's video: https://youtu.be/ODhHTngIMJE ✨TIMESTAMPS✨ 0:00 - Introduction 1:21 - Natural Planning Model 2:34 - Purpose & Principles 4:30 - Outcome Visioning 5:36 - Brainstorm 6:34 - Organize 7:05 - Next Actions 7:51 - Obsidian Set-Up 10:18 - Project Planning in Obsidian 18:50 - Conclusion #obsidian ✨OBSIDIAN TEMPLATE ✨ remove spaces between asterisks and text in Obsidian✨ # Purpose and Principle: * You cannot know what a project should look like or how to create it if you don't understand WHY you're doing it. This includes both its "purpose" - why this project needs to be produced - and your "principles" - the standards and values you hold that impact how and what you produce. * - ** Purpose: ** - ** Principles: ** # Outcome Visioning: * What will it be like when this project is out in the world? It's much easier to see how to do something once it's already done. So, envision your completion of the project so that you know what it might take to get there. * - ** What the end will ideally look like: ** - ** How I will ideally feel afterwards: ** - ** How others will ideally respond: ** - ** What else will result from the completion of this project: ** # Idea Dump: * Write EVERY idea that occurs to you down so that you don't have to hold any ideas in your head. Do not judge the ideas. Aim for quantity over quality. Resist organization or analysis (also see Getting Things Done, page 73) * # Next Actions: - [ ] task # The Draft: