Archives for the 'Projects' Category
How Fine Grained Should Your To-Do List Be? [The 4-Hour Workweek Journal]
In Getting Things Done, Dave Allen suggests that we must always be working from lists of actionable tasks. The “actionable” part is a powerful distinction. As Allen points out, we often end up with big chunky activities like “Marketing Campaign” on our to-do lists. The problem is that this is not actionable as you cannot [...]
Weekly Review Outline [7Breaths]
gtdfrk over at Getting Things Done has a post of his weekly review checklist. He wonders about other peoples weekly reviews so I thought I’d post an outline of my current one. I keep this of course in OneNote and have just copied it over, so some formating etc is missing but the basic scheme [...]
Managing Time and Projects with Outlook 2007 [7Breaths]
Despite using the weekly review to identify and discard projects which did not fit in with my current 90 day Goals I still have a tendency to take I more than time allows. To overcome this I have been using Outlook 2007 to help manage my time and projects in conjunction with OneNote 2007 - [...]
Horizons and Higher altitudes [7Breaths]
In my last post I can’t do it all… I began to discuss the problem I was having with my workflow - that of taking on too many projects. Jeroen commented regarding using the GTD Horizons of Focus during the weekly review to help decide what you should or should not be doing, whilst SpiKe [...]
Does having fewer projects make us more productive? [Matt's Idea Blog]
I was reading the classic article “Beware the Busy Manager” by Bruch and Ghoshal (Harvard Business Review, Feb 1, 2002 [1]), which shares some surprising results from research into what makes effective managers. I strongly recommend reading the entire article, but for this post I’ll focus on an interesting tidbit I found about the number [...]
Have A Weekly Project [Organize IT]
These last two weeks I have been experimenting with having a weekly project. My first week involved doing a media fast. This week, I have been attempting to go to the gym for five days. The purpose of this is to break old, bad habits (in my case, procrastinating over going to the gym and [...]
Getting Projects Done [7Breaths]
In the previous post we began to look at how you define a project to clarify exactly what you are aiming for.
3 Important issues when planning a project are:
Time FrameWell defined outcomeRegular review and flexibility.
One very important factor is still missing and this is often why projects stagnate. The thing missing is motivation. As can [...]
Defining a Project [7Breaths]
Projects:
Sometimes we set a project - but don’t seem to move to getting it done. At the most basic level we have to understand what a project is and make sure our projects match this - your project may not be progressing as you would like because it does not fully fulfil the criteria for [...]