TT - Welcome to the forum and thank you for your thoughts! I appreciate the book suggestions, I'm forwarding your message to my task list through the cloud :)
I'm not sure I agree that energy and willpower are the same, at least in how I handle them. I've found that pushing through some arduous tasks at certain times of day when my brain is not functioning well, is very inefficient even when I do work up the willpower. Maybe instead of energy I should use the term "brain fog" or something. And yes, too many fields gets arduous in itself. But I like the idea of filtering on max time, I'll have to think about that. Keep posting! It's great to have fresh voices here. On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 5:17 PM, TT <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > -- Lisa ------------------------------ Lisa Stroyan, mailto: [email protected] <[email protected]> -- 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/CAJYFk%2B1Tvu_MmnMyoH0e3_%2Bv0wzE8bWPte_k%2B-RHNiC8sspxpA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
