March 24\/2012<\/p>\n
I feel we all have three primary personal work management tools:<\/p>\n
…and I feel that we should make sure we keep these three primary management areas clean and well maintained.<\/p>\n
Specifically, make sure you get rid of non-useful information in these areas.\u00a0The calendar is usually not too bad, but the other areas get out of control quickly.<\/p>\n
If there is old useless information in your in-box or to-do list, you will start to get into habit of repeatedly skipping over broad portions of each, and\u00a0then\u00a0the tool becomes weaker, less useful. And you’ll start missing some important items there.<\/p>\n
So file mail from your Inbox immediately after you triage it (except for deferred replies, and process those within a day or so).<\/p>\n
And don’t let your 1MTD\/MYN Critical Now or Opportunity Now tasks list get full of tasks that you skip over week after week. Instead, schedule out tasks you know you are not going to work on soon. Or put them in the Over the Horizon section. Otherwise you will just glaze over when viewing entire sections of your list, and then the tool becomes useless.<\/p>\n
And in ToodleDo, don’t let the Significant Outcome (SOC) section get old. You’ll just stop looking at that section if you do. Set start dates ahead on those to keep it well focused.<\/p>\n
Using 1MTD and MYN<\/a>, it’s not hard to maintain these tools–just do it!<\/p>\n Michael<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" March 24\/2012 I feel we all have three primary personal work management tools: the in-box, the 1MTD\/MYN to-do list, and the calendar… …and I feel that we should make sure we keep these three primary management areas clean and well … Continue reading