How I Got Interested In The Art of Finishing Dream Projects

(AKA Personal Knowledge Management)

I wouldn’t call myself an expert in personal knowledge management (PKM) — the art of collecting and organizing information to empower you to take action.

However, I have probably spent a dozen or more hours learning about PKM. And I have probably spent hundreds of hours practicing personal knowledge management in my own life.

Here’s how I first got interested in personal knowledge management:

I read an article on Medium.com about organizing all my digital information using a method called PARA.

I put the system into practice and within a few hours my desktop was clear and I felt lighter.

There was a place for everything and everything had it’s place. Finally.

Soon I found that Tiago Forte, the creator of the PARA method, had a course called Building A Second Brain that teaches how to use his system to get your dream projects completed.

I was intrigued so I joined.

Using what I learned, I was able to incubate ideas for the many courses I was teaching.

I could work on a project in fits and starts, months ahead of time. If I had to stop for a while, I knew I’d easily find my place later. It was like having a bookmark for projects.

My work was no longer in my head. It was in a system I could trust. A system that let my ideas grow until I was ready to use them.

So my goal over the next few months is:

to help more creators build online courses.

Every time I have an idea, I know how to find it when I need it. This helps me stay focused on the current set of steps. I’m now making progress faster than before.

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