This morning while gulping down my decaf coffee before leaving for work I came across a post called: “If it won’t fit on a Post-It, it won’t fit in your day” from 99%. It piqued my interest as for the past year or so I’ve felt as if there is such an endless list of tasks to complete I no longer have a sense of how to prioritize, both at work and at home. My father (also a workaholic) always taught me to “make a list” — but really, a list on a notepad is different from a list on a tabloid size piece of paper.
Advice from the author Mark McGuiness: the shorter the list, the more you get done. He uses the 3”x3” squares and because they are a limited size, it forces him to really identify what is a priority that day. By identifying the tasks first thing in the morning (or the day before) helps you to not waste precious time in the day.
- Here are a few of his other tips:
- in the top left corner put in your “One Big Task” for the day
- make the list first thing in the morning and never add anything to that list during the day
- things that come up today go on another Post-It for tomorrow.
- do your most creative work in the morning and leave more administrative tasks until the end.
Do this Blog Post? Check! (the rest of it is going on the one for tomorrow, except my timesheets, I promise).
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