{"id":3683,"date":"2016-05-13T07:44:06","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T14:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/?p=3683"},"modified":"2016-05-13T07:44:06","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T14:44:06","slug":"how-we-collect-tasks-and-how-myn-saves-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/how-we-collect-tasks-and-how-myn-saves-us\/","title":{"rendered":"How We Collect Tasks (and how MYN saves us)"},"content":{"rendered":"

May 13, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now that I am updating my Toodledo training, I have completely switched over to Toodledo again and am using it as my main MYN task system. I did\u00a0that a number of years ago,\u00a0used it for about 2 years,\u00a0then switched back to Outlook when I starting updating the Outlook book in 2013.<\/p>\n

It’s good for me to make\u00a0this switch periodically for many reasons. One is it keeps me fresh in both systems. And it reminds me how good both systems are. Right now I am marveling at how good Toodledo is with MYN. If you are not using Windows Outlook (say you are a Mac user), I even more now recommend\u00a0Toodledo as your MYN tasks system.<\/p>\n

But another good outcome\u00a0that I noticed this time is that making the switch (and transferring tasks) forced me to see how many tasks I’d accumulated. I had nearly 600 tasks deferred to way in the future in Outlook! \u00a0<\/p>\n

Nearly all\u00a0of them were low priority defer-to-review<\/a> tasks that I never deleted and should have. So\u00a0I decided to do a major attention purge and I only transferred about 20 tasks total into Toodledo. I did save the old Outlook task folder and will watch it to see if some things pop up that are important, but in general I am going to say goodbye to all those old things that at one time I thought were important, but really aren’t.<\/p>\n

Doing this\u00a0reminded me of one of many reasons MYN works so well. One\u00a0thing MYN does well is it protects us from the fact that we tend to accumulate a ton of tasks, most of which lose steam within weeks, but we can’t\u00a0admit that. We tend to latch on to all those old tasks and won’t let go. So\u00a0MYN gives you tools to\u00a0highlight only the important ones (while giving you a way to save and periodically revisit the old ones). That’s one reason MYN\u00a0works so well.<\/p>\n

Now, ideally, we’d delete tasks immediately when they lost relevance, but that’s so hard to do. We keep hoping we’ll get time to do them. So the tools that MYN gives us essentially saves us from our own worst habits. Using MYN’s defer to review with long review cycles lets us let go of old things without worry.<\/p>\n

BTW, if you are a 1MTD user, and your task list has gotten too large, this it the main reason to switch to MYN, so you can get your visible list down to size.<\/p>\n

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

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