| | |||||||
| Register | FAQ | Members List | Calendar | Search | Today's Posts | Mark Forums Read |
| Personal Effectiveness Goals, productivity, time management, motivation, self-discipline, overcoming procrastination, habits, organizing, problem-solving, decision-making, intelligence |
|
Welcome to the Personal Development for Smart People Forums, the place for lively, intelligent discussion of all personal growth issues -- physical, mental, financial, social, emotional, spiritual, and more. You're currently viewing as a guest, which gives you limited read-only access. By joining our free community, you'll be able to post your own messages, access many members-only features, see the new messages posted since your last visit, and of course remove this header message. Registration is fast, simple, and free, so please join today. If you arrived here from a search engine, you may want to explore the main site first, which includes hundreds of deep and insightful articles on a variety of personal development topics. |
| | Thread Tools | Display Modes |
| |||
| While I do appreciate the high-tech gadgets, software, and techniques for personal/professional development, it seems to me that there's still a lot of benefit from the old, back-of-the-envelope, penciled-in, cross-out-when-done To Do List. You need not turn on the computer, Palm Pilot, or PDA to create these. In fact, sitting on the subway, on the couch, or on the toilet, one can map out a highly effective day. (I recommend keeping a couple post-its and a shortened pencil in one's wallet and writing these up when commuting.) The only short-coming I've found to these is that To Do Lists tend to emphasize the chores of life, rather than "higher-level" multi-stage projects. Thus we see these lists full of "do laundry", "pay bills", and "clean car", but relatively few "hire Bob", "analyze 401k investments", etc. Last edited by llong : 03-27-2007 at 09:34 AM. Reason: spelling |
| |||
| *cheers* I have a notebook that I write my to-do lists in. I never structure it, or insist to myself when each item needs to get done, I go with the flow. But it is very useful when, as usual, I forget what I was doing next! |
| |||
| I love, love, love, love...adooore to-do lists. I always do them onpaper. This year I got myself a 2007 dayplanner and it's great. Each night I make up my to-do list for the next day. This is how I get things done.
__________________ April |
| |||
| I balance the best of both worlds. I have a PDA and several books/notepads/sheets of paper taped to various walls desks etc. Oh and a whiteboard above my PC too!
__________________ *NEW*Rantcrunch.com Angry? Upset? Furious? - Just get it off your chest. Mami Yamazaki - A quest to get a date with a Japanese model Website Crunch - Making Website dreams happen for those who don't know how. Secret Scrolls - LoA & Life Coaching Blog |
| |||
| I think that daily chores are the ones that go on the to do list because those are the kinds of actions that you've already experienced doing before and so that you know specifically how to do them. And well they are small enough that you can actually get them done in a day. Because how to hire bill is something that is not totally obvious and might take more than a couple of days to do. Maybe if you wrote down the "next action" (as from the book Getting Things Done) that is actually doable in one fell swoop, then you could also include higher level goals. Like the next step for hire bill might be to phone someone up. And something like analyze stocks, seems like that is a never ending thing. Maybe you could fit that in by putting a specific amount of time, like "analyze stocks for 10 minutes" |
« Previous Thread
|
Next Thread »
| Thread Tools | |
| Display Modes | |
| |
| | ||||
| Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
| Is there a reading list of major books/authors in this general field? | nantucketsunset | Intention-Manifestation | 24 | 06-10-2008 10:39 PM |
| Defense and violence | Raynt | Character & Contribution | 22 | 12-07-2006 11:01 PM |
| Share your Life to-do list and/or your Bliss List :) | Alarin | Fun & Recreation | 3 | 12-07-2006 01:18 AM |
| 101 Things in 1001 Days | Dittert | Personal Effectiveness | 6 | 11-27-2006 07:01 AM |
| Free pd books from Stevs list | tomjen | Steve Pavlina | 3 | 11-23-2006 01:42 AM |
All times are GMT. The time now is 05:36 PM.

