Mary, I also find this a problem without a visual planning tool. I tend to have a lot more smaller projects that need to be managed but I have issues if they are all due around the same time. I tend to monitor these more in the outline than the to do list and just use my to do list for the things I have planned to do. In each area of my life I have broken my outline up into timeframes when I would expect to do projects and have a sub heading for each:
Scheduled (for items that have to be done on a particualr date) Current (Those I am working on at the moment) On the Tee (Those I am ready to start/do. These are the ones I intend to do this week but they don't go on my list until I put them there. The start date for these is set to next Monday and when I am ready to do them, I move them to the current section) On the Horizon (Those items that I will be ready to do in the near future - maybe next week or the week after. The start date for these is set to 4 weeks time) Over the Horizon (Those items that I will not be doing for a while yet - maybe a month or so away. The start date is set to 2 months time.) In my weekly review, I check the items in the two horizon groups and see which ones I want to move up. I then advance the start date of the headings for all groups by one week. This keeps my to do list shorter and more focussed but it does mean that I have to keep an eye on my outline and spend a bit more time planning. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized?hl=en.
