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This is the essential principle behind Getting Things Done. If you’ve got to do something, and it takes more than 90 seconds, book time for it. If you need som
by cushychicken 2y ago
This is the essential principle behind Getting Things Done. If you’ve got to do something, and it takes more than 90 seconds, book time for it.
If you need someone else’s input, schedule a time to check in with them for their inputs if they don’t get back to you by X time.
Been using this for years and it has worked really well for me.
- zipping1549 2y ago90 seconds?? Is that negotiable? Because that sounds to me like a stupidly short time.
- lukan 2y agoOh well, "sorry, 90 seconds have passed, I need to go, if you want to have longer conversations with me, better make an appointment"
- jabroni_salad 2y agoKeep in mind that figure came from someone whose idea of work is reading and responding to emails for a large period of the day. My personal threshold is whether or not I need to make an ITIL description of what I'm doing. If I do, I'm reserving time for it.
- nunodonato 2y agoIts negotiable and its 2min, not 90 seconds. The general idea is, if you have a really short and quick action (and you are certain it is short and quick), then its better to do it right away than to put it on a list to do later. The "management" time taken to write it down and pick it up again later is not worth the effort.
- scrapheap 2y agoI'd hope so as sometimes it can take me more than 90 seconds to put an entry in my calendar, which would result in me putting and entry in my calendar for putting and entry in my calendar :)
- nunodonato 2y agothis is completely the opposite of what GTD recommends. Calendar entries are only date and/or date-time specific actions or events. Everything else goes into a Next Actions list.
- cushychicken 2y agoIt a hundred percent is not. If it takes more than 2 minutes, and you’re not blocked on input, schedule it. If you’re blocked on next action, add it to a “Waiting for Response” list.