{"id":2186,"date":"2013-09-08T14:33:44","date_gmt":"2013-09-08T21:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oneminutetodolist.com\/blog\/?p=2186"},"modified":"2013-09-12T14:16:41","modified_gmt":"2013-09-12T21:16:41","slug":"quick-review-of-how-to-create-a-one-minute-to-do-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/quick-review-of-how-to-create-a-one-minute-to-do-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Review of How to Create a One Minute To-Do List"},"content":{"rendered":"

September 8, 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n

The One Minute To-Do List (1MTD)<\/a> is very simple. If you are not using it, here’s a quick review of how to create a to-do list using 1MTD principles. It will take you about 60 seconds to do this.<\/p>\n

First, choose your tools. You can use any tool that can show three priority groups; use paper, Outlook, Toodledo<\/a>\u2014any tool will do. Outlook or Toodledo are what I recommend because they can advance easily to MYN use later. Below, I show Windows Outlook’s To-Do Bar task list arranged by Importance, which is an easy way to go (just click on the Arrange By label at its top and choose Importance). In Toodledo, just click on the Priority column label to group by priority.<\/p>\n

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Next, success with 1MTD is based on segmenting all your tasks into three main “Urgency Zones”: Critical Now, Opportunity Now, and Over-the-Horizon, all shown above. The way you define <\/em>them is as follows:<\/p>\n

1MTD Urgency Zones Defined<\/strong><\/p>\n

1) Urgent tasks that must be completed today you put in the Critical Now section; that\u2019s the High priority section in Toodledo and Outlook. 2) Tasks that you would like to do today or this week but that could wait a bit without doing damage, (some even up to ten days), you place in the Opportunity Now section. That\u2019s the Medium priority section in Toodledo and the Normal priority section in Outlook. 3) And tasks that can wait ten days or longer, perhaps much longer, you place in the Over-the-Horizon section; this is the Low priority section in Toodledo and Outlook.<\/p>\n

Control Size of Top Two Zones<\/strong><\/p>\n

To keep the size of this list well controlled, you should have no more than five items in the Critical Now list, and likely much fewer; zero is okay. You should have no more than 20 items in the Opportunity Now list. And you\u2019ll place all other items in the Over-the-Horizon section, which can be unlimited in size.<\/p>\n

Review Cycles: Once per Hour, Once per Day, Once per Week
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You will review the Critical Now section approximately once per hour. You review the Opportunity Now section at least once per day. And you review the Over-the-Horizon section once per week. Set some time aside to do these reviews, and to work tasks off the list.<\/p>\n

Later Step: Use MYN and Defer-to-Review (When the Low Zone Gets Too Long)<\/strong><\/p>\n

The above is all you need to do for a while, and perhaps all you’ll ever need. 1MTD is a really simple system that works really really well. However, after a number of months the Over-the-Horizon section (low-priority zone) might get too big to review weekly. If that happens, and you cannot delete a lot of tasks, then\u00a0start using the MYN\u00a0Defer-to-Review process. That’s all about setting future start dates at reasonable review cycles for each task. MYN is a fairly easy upgrade\u00a0in Toodledo (the short Chapter 9 of my free PDF book<\/a> The One Minute To-Do List<\/em> gets you started, or take the MYN-Toodledo Video <\/a>course). With Outlook, however, moving to MYN is harder. The MYN Outlook book<\/a> shows how to do that, as does the self-study MYN Outlook Video course<\/a>.<\/p>\n

1MTD is Simple yet Powerful<\/strong><\/p>\n

That’s it. As you can see 1MTD is pretty simple. Deceptively so. But it really does work at getting your day under control. Get started right away!<\/p>\n

Michael Linenberger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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