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The to-do list method for people with crazy lives and short attention spans
The Hunter Method
- Choose one task that is going to be the focus of your day, even if it does not fill your whole day.
- Write it on a Post-it note and stick it to your laptop.
- Look at this note when your mind begins to wander.
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The Not-to-do List
A list of tasks you simply don't do: You delete them, delegate them, outsource them or simply say no when they try to find their way on your to-do list:
- Things you want to say no
- Distractions from being productive
- Regular tasks you can delete, delegate, or outsource
- Other people's responsibility
- Small projects that get way on bigger projects
- Emotionally draining tasks
- Bad habits
- Stuff that doesn't need to be done
- Things that are out of control
- Everything else that you can systematically eliminate and bring a bigger margin into your life.
Not-to-do List and Templates
When people ask you personally or via email something that you are struggling to decline, use templates. Templates are standard response you use to everyone. With the use of these, you refuse them politely without offending them. Also, it saves you time and there's less emotional pressure compared to writing a decline every time.
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1. Time-Blocking
Time-blocking consists of assigning individual tasks to manageable time slots.
Instead of writing out short tasks alongside hours-long tasks on your list for the day and hoping you ha...
2. If/then Lists
To set reasonable goals make a list for high-energy days and another for when you are reluctant to work. Both lists should follow an “if/then” model.
The first lists should have the more involved tasks, while the second list should feature more mindless tasks like cleaning out your inbox, organizing your desk, or even napping.
3. Eisenhower Matrix
- Has items that are both urgent and important, is to be tackled immediately.
- Items that are important but not urgent, can be scheduled for a later time.
- Tasks deemed urgent but not important can be delegated to others if possible
- Tasks that are neither urgent nor important should be crossed off the list altogether.
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Creating A Don’t-Do List
Start by looking at your congested to-do list. There's no doubt that there are items in that list that you can get rid of. By doing that, ask yourself these questions:
- If we do...
Letting Go of Hundreds of Good Ideas
It's a challenge to surrender numerous good ideas that can be innovated and improved. This is where the don't-do list come to play. In order to develop, test, pilot and revise an idea, loads of propositions must be dropped.
The challenge is to be tough enough to do the pruning so that the survivors have a chance of being implemented properly and reaching their full potential,
Closing Your Options
"Only the masters of renunciation leave an imprint, only those who can say a hundred Nos for the sake of an overwhelming Yes."
- David Brooks.
Your energy disappears and nothing really happens.
It is a reminder for you to close those options. And starts focusing on something that will affect and move you towards success. Otherwise, you spread yourself thin. You dissipate your energies and never put full force behind any cause.