As regards Lisa's original point, books by Mark Forster address exactly the problem of having too many items on the ToDo list and becoming overwhelmed to the point of doing nothing - see his first book “Get Everything Done and Still Have Time to Play” and a later book “Get Everything Done and Still Have Time to Play”, which has a system for tackling the problem of ToDo lists growing ever longer. (I should say though that I have still not yet fully adapted his systems, which many people find helpful, to MLO!) In MLO I do star items to indicate current items to address and then sort their order in the 'Active Starred' view to give a current/today list of items. I leave the rest of the tasks unstarred but regularly review them.
I agree with Elizabeth and Steph that it is wise to try to limit how many MOL fields one complete and I too do not complete the effort fields. I have however found putting in a max time (estimated quite crudely as 15 mins / 1hour / 4 hours / 8 hours / 'days' helps sort out long and short tasks and I have created a view which sorts active tasks in ascending order of time, which helps identify some 'quick hit' items which help me get going sometimes! On having the energy to deal with tasks, this can be restated as the willpower to do the things one has set for oneself and in this context I am currently reading two interesting books:"Maximum Willpower" by Kelly McGonigal and "Willpower: Rediscovering Our Greatest Strength" by Roy F. Baumeister and John Tierney - you might be interested to see descriptions of them on Amazon. I hope this is useful - it's my first post in the MLO Groups. TT -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/1b286cfb-9a02-464e-9c6a-3db3a6c51da5%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
