The document discusses stress and burnout experienced by project managers. It describes various productivity tools and methodologies tried in the past 25 years, including Lotus Notes, Outlook, SharePoint, Evernote, and OneNote. While these isolated important concepts from David Allen's Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology, the author realized he was missing a single to-do list. The author wants to share personal productivity best practices with others to help them experience less stress and more success.

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I Want My Life Back
Kurt Vanhaesebrouck

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Project Manager, Sounds familiar?
• Constant Stress
• Feeling Helpless
• Complete Exhausted
• Hard to keep promises
• Always too late
• Procrastination
You may be suffering from burnout…

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I’ve tried everything in the past 25 years
• Lotus notes tasks
• Outlook tasks
• SharePoint team site
• Evernote / OneNote
• Excel

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The pre-holiday feeling, the whole year long
• Complete the Most important priorities
• The other to-do’s planned
• Everybody informed
What if I each day could:

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a fool with a tool still a fool
• First I’ve focussed on the right productivity technique by studying the GTD methodology from
David Allen
• Isolate the essential GTD idea’s and bring them into practise for more then 3 month.
• And then define what I was missing in my toolset

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What I was
missing was
1 TO DO List

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That is as easy as Excel, Outlook, OneNote ...
Managing Projects and Operations
DevOps, Scrum Masters
Business Unit Managers
Project Managers

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Sharing is Caring
I want to thank following people for sharing their experience:
◦ Dirk Vercruysse (Quidnunc)
◦ Angelique Bouwman (Organiserum)
◦ Jan Buskens (GTD.Training)
◦ Johan Dhaeseleer (Extra Tijd)
It’s time for me to share my personal productivity best practises with you.
Currently, the info isn’t yet ready for general publication but if you are interested in
a draft version, please send an email to me.
kurt.vanhaesebrouck@uprince.com

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Which experiences shall I share…
• What you really need to know to succeed
• Start-2-GTD
• GTD live
• GTD of Project Managers
• GTD Training and coaching