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Anyone else suffer from list-bloat?
terrym | Jun 1 2006
Does anyone else suffer from lists that are just too large and fuzzy to be of any use? I use Outlook for my lists, but I'm sure this could apply regardless of system. I put too much down on my list, without properly framing it, without giving it the right verb, without checking I've not already got it there in the first place, with the result that every now and then I need to scrap the entire list and start again. Is it just me? Are everyone else's lists right first time? Does anyone else struggle specifically with list of projects? Does anyone really bother with the 'anything two action steps or over' idea? Or is it just me that thinks this demands too much maintenance? I ramble on at greater length here, and don't get me started about e-mail!
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 I agree, I think we...Submitted by solidsnot on June 1, 2006 - 5:33am.
I agree, I think we all write projects down from time to time and look at them and say to ourselves, "What the hell was I thinking? How much more vague could 'Look on internet' be?" ;) I found myself doing that on one project the other week and after I sat there staring at it wondering why my next actions told me nothing about what I was supposed to be doing to move the project along and it came down to my inexperience or lack of clarity of what exactly I wanted done. I just didn't have the end in sight and that led me to create fuzzy next actions because I wasn't focused on the completion of the project. Once I defined the goal for myself, the next actions flowed forth as water. » POSTED IN:
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