Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Ah, the illusion of control

It's summer!  And that means I have things to do at work.  So I've put things in order and have goals for all the weeks I've worked.  Nicole, from First Unitarian introduced me to this planning method. It's great for when you have specific tasks to do over a set amount of time, not all of which are date specific. My summer tasks mostly just need to get done, and some can't start before I finish others, so this system works fabulously for me.  Whatever doesn't get done in a given week gets moved down to the next week.  The trick is to keep July 21-25 from getting to full of too many un-done post-it notes.

Another way to do this is to use index cards instead of post-its.  Then you can save the index cards, make notes on the backs, and throw them in a folder to retrieve for the next summer.

2 comments:

  1. This is a really great idea! I wish you the best of luck. Keep us updated - let us know if it works & keeps you from being overwhelmed come August.

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  2. I like this system. It must be satisfying to pull down a completed sticky!

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