http://cherieiam.blogspot.com/2011/05/little-overwhelmed.html
Time is flying and tasks are accumulating ....what to do to solve that dilemma????
Hmm… make to-do lists, or better: will-do lists
and try not to procrastinate (which i have a natural tendency to do)
Time is flying and tasks are accumulating ....what to do to solve that dilemma????
Hmm… make to-do lists, or better: will-do lists
and try not to procrastinate (which i have a natural tendency to do)
There are two important principles to keep in mind about this new list:
1. It’s a list of commitments
Your goal should be to complete 100% of your daily will-do list, every day. Remember that these tasks are commitments: if you’re not serious about crossing off each and every item from your will-do list, there’s no point in creating one. Therefore, you need to be extremely careful in putting just a few items there: when in doubt, be conservative.
(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.)
2. Once set, don’t add any more items to it
The will-do list is intended to be a closed list: once created, don’t add anything to it during the day.
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.

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