4 ms·
To-do lists are useful to an extent, but I’ve found making things time-bound to be the way to go. I wrote an article about this a couple of years back and I’m s
by _uoud 5y ago
To-do lists are useful to an extent, but I’ve found making things time-bound to be the way to go. I wrote an article about this a couple of years back and I’m still using this approach with slight modifications along with a weekly planning session on Sundays: https://www.lostbookofsales.com/why-to-do-lists-often-stink-and-how-do-the-truly-successful-people-maintain-their-productivity/ https://www.lostbookofsales.com/why-to-do-lists-often-stink-...
- alexmingoia 5y agoYou’re right: We have limited time. Is a calendar necessary to consider that? The way I see a calendar is for events that must happen at a specific time (appointments, birthdays, classes, etc.). To-dos may happen at any time. For example, I workout after lunch. But I don’t always eat lunch at the same time for the same duration. My workout may happen at 1pm or 3pm. Why do I need to schedule it at a fixed time? Instead of scheduling todos, we could just timeblock them, and only allot N hours per day to tasks.
- iamsanteri 5y agoAbsolutely, I work with blocks that only vaguely direct me with working on things I need to. With iOS calendar on Mac and phone it’s also easy to flip things around as you go. I just have an X amount of time in my week outside of my varying weekly study schedule so I plug things in and allocate with a lot of buffers in-between to not be too tight. It’s important to not be too harsh on yourself if you didn’t manage to do something. Just move it over to next week free block and re-adjust it on your next planning session on Sunday. If it is something extra important with a deadline, mark it with a couple of exclamation marks. You can then at the end of week also review your progress with your longer-term goals. Voila! Works!