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The Core Piece of ANY Project

Hello everyone! Thanks again for joining me on my random productivity adventure!

Projects

My YouTube video this week is all about game design documents for video games, but the principles I discuss can be applied to any project.

I used the leadership framework Simon Sinek writes about in his book Start With Why.

In order for any project to be successful, you need to start with the why, the purpose behind the project.

You know what, I'm just going to let Simon talk about it. He's a lot better at explaining it than me 😆


Resources

Author James Clear talks about a similar idea to Start With Why in his book Atomic Habits.

In order to build good habits, you need to start with identity.

Summary of Atomic Habits: How Your Habits Shape Your Identity (and Vice Versa)
Sketchnoted summary of the second chapter of James Clear’s book, Atomic Habits.

Archives

Just like the amazing authors referenced above, I too have a similar idea in my system building framework, FIRST:

Focus: Why Do You Need a Productivity System?
In the first article in this series I gave you five principles for crafting your perfect productivity system. Those principles are: * Focus * Iterate * Record * Simplify * Trust The first of these principles, Focus, helps you answer this question: Why do you need a productivity system? There are productivity experts out there