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Scheduling works for me. Not a TODO list. I schedule what I shall be doing tomorrow and as soon as that's done, I get out of office. This motivates me to start
by z92 13y ago
Scheduling works for me. Not a TODO list. I schedule what I shall be doing tomorrow and as soon as that's done, I get out of office. This motivates me to start work early in the morning, just to feel relaxed after finishing my work for the day by 11:00, for example.
- eatmyshardz 13y agoYou bring up a great point that I think the article left out—scheduling the tasks ahead of time before the day you have to do them can help tremendously. For me, that is motivation in and of itself that I can just start the next day with it already planned.
- girvo 13y agoI schedule blocks of time for certain over-arching projects, and then pull out that specific projects TODO list when my calendar tells me. Gives me an excellent balance of rigidness and flexibility. :)
- jt2190 13y agoThis is exactly what the article is advocating: > The alternative to the feckless to-do list is what > I call “living in your calendar.” Or did I miss a subtle difference in with your approach?
- xerophtye 13y agoThat somehow never works for me. Partially because when writing code you cant always knw how long wil it take (issues come up all the time. debugging can take a while especially if it's a big project and there is a lot of code written by a lot of different people)