When you jump into a complex project, it can be hard to know where to start—but not if you use the “action method,” a productivity technique that involves treating everything you do as a project. A “project” might be cleaning your house, giving a presentation in a meeting, or answering all of your remaining emails. The goal of this mindset shift is to provide structure for each task you need to complete, so you spend less time battling chaos.
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That's why it makes sense to reconsider the way you think about projects and how you can make the action method work for you.
As noted, the action method seeks to help you increase your productivity and work more effectively by organizing your daily tasks and long-term goals into projects, and then breaking those projects down into actionable steps. The basic framework comes from Scott Belsky, who outlined the method in his 2010 book Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality.
The maction method was born when Belsky, co-founder of Behance, wanted to help creative professionals tackle the inefficiency, disorganization, and general chaos of bureaucracy-ridden careers. The idea is not just to organize your ideas, but to develop an action plan to execute them.
