• 24 Mar 15
  

  proserpinarex

  • Why bother?

      

    In my own experience wrangling life's entropic challenges, some of my best gains have come from maintaining a smart, actionable, and updated accounting of all the things I've committed myself to doing.
  • Why bother?
  • Anatomy of a To-do
  • Break it Down to the “Next Action”
  • Learning to honor that distinction between a task and its parent project may, in fact, be the most important step you can take toward improving the quality and “do-ability” of the work on your list.
  • Let's Get Physical

  • Your work is what you make it

      

    The trick is that these jobs can be made easier long before they're undertaken by framing and naming them properly and in the right-sized units
  • As early as the capture and planning phases of this cycle, you hold the power and responsibility for defining your work. Failing to do that well and thoughtfully is a primary cause of hang-ups further down the line. In other words, your work often isn't difficult because you're necessarily all that busy, but because you hadn't taken the time to list it all out in a way that makes it clear and “do-able”. This is so important as you begin actually working on your tasks, when the last thing you want is to wonder whether you're doing the right thing at the right time.

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• 19 Nov 14
  

  Remel Orbale

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• 04 Oct 14
  

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• 18 Apr 14
  

  Max Marmer

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    • it's a physical action
    • it can be accomplished at a sitting
    • it supports valuable progress toward a recognized goal
    • it's something for which you are the most appropriate person for the job
  • Learning to honor that distinction between a task and its parent project may, in fact, be the most important step you can take toward improving the quality and “do-ability” of the work on your list.
  • This enables you to keep putting one foot in front of the other, ensuring that you always know what to do next, instead of half-assing your way through a badly-defined pile of fuzzy nouns.

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• 29 Sep 13
  

  sprime01
  •  

    Building a Smarter To-Do List, Part I
  • your to-do list as an evolving plan for responsibly focusing your effort and attention in the near future.
  • Anatomy of a To-do

  • The best and most useful to-dos share common qualities:

      
    • it's a physical action
    • it can be accomplished at a sitting
    • it supports valuable progress toward a recognized goal
    • it's something for which you are the most appropriate person for the job
  • Break it Down to the “Next Action”
  • “next action,” which he defines as “the next physical, visible activity that needs to be engaged in, in order to move the current reality toward completion.”
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  • Articulating your to-dos in terms of physical activity--even when they require only modest amounts of actual exertion
  • All in how you phrase it
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  • Get the verbs right
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  • a better-defined chunk of activity suggests a task with clear edges
  • Your work is what you make it
  • The trick is that these jobs can be made easier long before they're undertaken by framing and naming them properly and in the right-sized units
  • capture and planning phases of this cycle,
  • makes it clear and “do-able

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• 20 Jul 13
  

  whitecaniswolf

  productivity organization howto todo list lifehacks

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• 27 May 13
  

  natalieberts

  Productivity Procrastination

• 20 May 13
  

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• 10 May 13
  

  geekybaiyi
  • • it's a physical action
    • it can be accomplished at a sitting
    • it supports valuable progress toward a recognized goal
    • it's something for which you are the most appropriate person for the job
  • Most importantly, it ensures that you've thought through your task to a point where you can envision how it will need to be undertaken and what it will actually feel like once you're doing it. This means you can easily visualize the activity, the kinds of tools you'll need, and perhaps even the setting where the work should take place; It's not just a bunch of words you've written on a page.
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