'Will-Do' Lists - The Diigo Meta page

• 13 Jan 09
  

  Dani Cyr

  Instead of shrinking, to-do lists usually only get longer and longer, no matter how fast you knock your tasks down. What to do?

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• 14 Jun 08
  

  paul allitor
• 27 Apr 08
  

  J. Schmitt

  GTD productivity

• 25 Mar 08
  

  jingo74

  productivity GTD

• 28 Feb 08
  

  arc_room

  quickd

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  • • Take your to-do list and pick a few tasks that you will do the next day:
    • wholeheartedly commit to do
    • Your goal should be to complete 100% of your daily will-do list, every day.
    • (I usually don’t book more than 2 hours’ worth of daily will-do tasks, or I am unable to sustain the 100% completion rate for too long. I also usually tackle my daily will-do list as soon as I can, using highly-focused time boxes.)
    • closed list:

    • That means that the only possible thing that can happen to your list is that it will get smaller. And that is the big trick: your list is not a moving target, but a finite and measurable workload that you can actually finish. That is much better for your motivation than the sight of endless to-do lists. Can you still remember the feeling of crossing off the very last item of your task list?

      
      

    • Of course, you should still add items to your master task list as usual. But unless the new items are extremely urgent (and they usually aren’t), you must avoid as much as possible adding them to today’s will-do list.
    • You do the things that really matter:
    • You develop your estimation skills:
    • You have an objective metric of accomplishment:
    • that we are consistently keeping our promises to ourselves. I
    • n Jerry Seinfeld’s “task chain” tip.
• 27 Feb 08
  

  Wim Bervoets

  tips

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  tarentola tarentola

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