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Originally Posted by RobTrew
Where did I recently read of a Pentagon general describing her approach to getting things done ? Essentially:
- List everything that you need to do,
- discard it all except for the 3 key items.
Fairly extreme, and perhaps middle ground is typically more fertile in civilian life, but it could be argued that OF is really best used as a circular file. |
A more subtle approach is to drop everything into OF, but at the start of a day, week or other time period, write down a few items on a sheet of paper and work from that, ignore OF completely. Anything left over at the end of the day goes back into OF.
On the piece of paper I have headings 'Do', 'Waiting for', 'Best effort', and 'Doodle'. The fact that it is handwriting makes it terse, and easy to remember.