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Discussion on: Have you made recent changes to your workflow to boost productivity?

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Ryan Latta

Ok, I made a few big changes in my workflows in the past year.

  1. Writing - I'll skip describing this for now.
  2. Email - Seriously, this approach from Andreas Klinger worked awesome for me.
  3. Juggling All my professional hustles.

Little more on three. I juggle my day job, consulting business, and career coaching, and I want a way to keep up with all my stuff. So I use a combination of Trello and Email to do it. I set up label colors to see what aspect of my life it is, I use a calendar plugin to see them on my calendar, and I'll forward things from email straight into Trello like contacting a lead or following up with a mentee. My board has a column for big goals, then I follow a PDCA cycle.

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Stephanie Morillo

I'll have to check out the article, thank you!

I hear you re: juggling multiple hustles. It's cool to see that you use Trello as a CRM tool — has it met your needs so far for that?

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Ryan Latta

At this point, kind of.

The main thing I'm focusing on with that is making sure I have discipline and keep contacts alive.

So for example, I'll create an item to find contacts in LinkedIn and email them. When I'm done I'll create tasks to contact them again after some period.