It’s important for me to be productively engaged most of the time. I’m sharing my approach to daily planning in a Youtube video.
I’ve shared my questions for prioritizing here – Time Power – Insight on Time Management. I think this has been one of the most powerful approaches to personal effectiveness I’ve experienced. I try to always take 15-30 minutes the first thing in the morning every day to work on my list. I’ll admit that I don’t always get it done for various reasons but I try. Sometimes I have to adapt and don’t get to planning time until later or even planning the night before, but when I do spend the time it helps me spend less time in the actual doing.
Many of the time management/productivity experts speak to the value of analyzing or thinking about the tasks we take on. Sometimes, just a few minutes of consideration will help to shorten the execution of the tasks or it might even give some insight on the true value of the task. Often I can delay or drop something if it carries little to no value to my overall life. I call this deliberate procrastination.
The video also shows how I use a habit tracker to document how I deal with those daily tasks that don’t really need to take space on my daily task list. I hope that this tracker will actually help me ingrain some of those habits I want to just automatically do. As I get a bit older, it does take more concentration to augment my memory. I see this tracker approach becoming even more important as the old gray matter continues to ossify.
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