Stress-Free Productivity

Stress-Free Productivity is a TED talk that advises the following steps to become less stressed and more productive:

1. Write it down. Write down a thought about a "to-do" item immediately after you've got an idea. The longer a thought stays in your head without being recorded, the more of your attention it will hold until you remove it from your head. Writing it down helps to remove the idea from your mind.
2. Specify outcome. If an item of a to-do list looks like "budget", it doesn't mean anything or is confusing. Specify an outcome/result of the "to-do" item, e.g. "write all costs of the trip to Florida".
3. Map projects. There are many items and actions in the "to-do" lists. Map them out, find connections, see a big picture of what is necessary to do to.

Why are these steps important?
People usually blame lack of time to finish all the projects. The speaker says that what people lack is SPACE TO THINK or psychic BANDWIDTH. The steps above help to create the bandwidth by freeing our brain from attention to a lot of minor things.

What happens when one doesn't free the mind? 

1. Loose perspective (putting your focus on the thing you need to do at the time you need to do) 
2. Loose control - no stability, and  no freedom in one's head to focus on what needs to be done.

So when one feels like there is no enough time, one or both things act on a person - loosing control or focus.