RE: [MLO] Re: How do I stop my bad habit of "ploughing too deeply" (i.e. too perfectionist)?

Excellent quote! Thank you. From: mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com [mailto:mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of birdv...@gmail.com Sent: Friday, October 2, 2015 12:25 To: mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [MLO] Re: How do I stop my bad habit of "ploughing too d

Re: [MLO] Re: How do I stop my bad habit of "ploughing too deeply" (i.e. too perfectionist)?

There are quite a few items on the web about successful people scheduling with their calendars, rather than to-do lists. That way, you have to complete in the time you've allowed yourself. It also forces people like me not to spread myself to thinly, expecting to get more done in a day than

Re: [MLO] Re: How do I stop my bad habit of "ploughing too deeply" (i.e. too perfectionist)?

> There are quite a few items on the web about successful people > scheduling with their calendars, rather than to-do lists. Interesting. However surely one can't put everything into a calendar! After all, a cornerstone of David Allen's GTD philosophy was to write the whole lot down, no?

[MLO] Re: How do I stop my bad habit of "ploughing too deeply" (i.e. too perfectionist)?

P.S. To get clear you can add a Start Date and/or a Due Date easily enough for a task, but I don't think you can do anything similar for a Context... On Friday, 2 October 2015 17:14:20 UTC+1, J Smith wrote: > > Hello > > I am working at home a lot and I have a problem with the way I am using

Re: [MLO] Re: How do I stop my bad habit of "ploughing too deeply" (i.e. too perfectionist)?

J: I have this quote on my monitor: Patton: “A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed at some indefinite time in the future.” Eddie On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 9:23 AM, J Smith wrote: > P.S. > To get clear you can add a Start Date and/or a Due

Re: [MLO] Re: How do I stop my bad habit of "ploughing too deeply" (i.e. too perfectionist)?

Hmmm I'm not so sure. "Now! Now! Now!" sounds more like a recipe for stress than a recipe for success. On Friday, 2 October 2015 17:26:09 UTC+1, Majorbillion wrote: > > J: > > I have this quote on my monitor: > > Patton: “A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect

Re: [MLO] Re: How do I stop my bad habit of "ploughing too deeply" (i.e. too perfectionist)?

Actually, I think the quotes from General George Patton really does touch directly on the issues that you're dealing with. Many times procrastination arises out of the desire to want to get everything perfect. I myself I'm guilty of that. I refuse to move forward because I worry that I have not

Re: [MLO] Re: How do I stop my bad habit of "ploughing too deeply" (i.e. too perfectionist)?

Hi, John. You should Google "the Pomodoro technique" -Dwight Mlo betazoid on Android sgn2 On Oct 2, 2015, J Smith wrote: > >Hmmm I'm not so sure. > >"Now! Now! Now!" sounds more like a recipe for stress than a recipe for > >success. > > > > >On Friday, 2 October 2015