Managing To-Do Lists
Dawn Springett here has a concise suggestion for managing to-do lists. It’s related to my series about WIP from a few weeks back. I like Dawn’s list for the brevity and pragmatism: it’s a combination of tools that make sense, and it makes sense as a whole, especially where it reminds the reader to embrace change (priorities may shift, schedules may have to be rearranged).
One of the suggestions is to “[s]chedule your tasks in your calendar, in order of priority”, and to “allocate enough time for each task”. This is way more complex than it seems, especially for people with certain kinds of roles that involve meetings, lots of them. Allocating enough time for any given task isn’t going to be easy in such a setup. On the upside, many of the meetings are connected to the tasks in one way or another, and can be leveraged to keep things moving. This is what I’ve been practicing, too.
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