Dear fellow MLOer's, 1. The single question I ask of my to do list is "what is the best use of my time right now?". (this is not original, comes from the father of time management, Alan Lakein. 2. To identify options, S. Covey's Roles/Goals/Projects/Tasks/Actions structure is the best I have seen. 3. David Allen's "next action" helps me identify what the next action in every task is.
So, if I can make a list of all the next actions of all the tasks/ projects/goals/roles, then all I need to do is put them in priority sequence for my "to do" list. MLO gives me the nested goals within roles, projects within goals, tasks with in projects/subprojects and actions within tasks structure. The challenge is identifying "next actions" regardless if they occur within tasks, projects, tasks, or sub-tasks. The key is regardless of the nesting, just identify the final actions level and 1. sequence the actions, and star the first action. Or alternatively, one can make every task (regardless of how many project/ subproject/subsubproject etc. preceeds the action list) a project which forces next action identification. Seems to me this can be made easier by identifying the lowest level of hierarchy as "actions" and providing a "next action" mechanism to generate a to do list of all the next (sequence or date) actions. Then all that is needed is a way to resequence the to do list, with #1 being the "best use of my time right now". I have worked with TRO, FranklinCovey, Treepad, Outlook, and a bunch of others over the years, and MLO seems to be the closest. Anyone have an idea how to configure MLO to accomplish the above Lakein/Covey/Allen structure? Thanks for any input..........Dr Bob -- 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.
