4 ways to organize to-do list to work more efficiently

Share of energy-intensive tasks, time, priority, or scope.

Not all things are equally important, and to concentrate on the essentials, it is necessary to sort them in making the list. Mike Vardy (Mike Vardi), author, speaker and founder Productivityist project I toldHow to split tasks into categories.

1. Depending on the energy consumption

Three groups of problems: high, medium and low-cost mental energy. Then spread the works of these categories. This approach will help advance the work, even when you can not take up the challenge. But it requires honesty. If you vigorous and energeticHold the case with high energy costs, and do not be fooled, doing simple questions.

Plus the fact that even the feeling is not very good, you will advance, carrying out low-cost problem. Even small steps can help you move forward. When will cope with light chores, you may receive the energy and big.

2. Depending on the execution time

This approach is useful when you need to manage tasks at different times of the day. This is especially useful if you are working on the basic work and begin to build their business at the same time.

For example, you need to check email more than once a day. Then ineffective to make the list of the task "Check messages". I want to break the day into three parts and to check the morning, afternoon and evening mail. In this there is an additional advantage - you will not be too much to look at incoming and distracted by other things.

If during the day you do not know what to do, just look in the list for this time period.

3. Depending on the priority

according to Eisenhower matrix all things fall into four categories:

• urgently important;
• Important non-urgent;
• unimportant but urgent;
• unimportant and not urgent.

If you allocate tasks to these categories, it is immediately evident that you need to do now, what - then, and that - never. Such an approach would not forget the important things that sometimes happens when they are written, interspersed with others.

4. Depending on the application,

Item "Wash the dishes" in the worklist cases you will only get in the way. Try to divide the tasks of areas: work / personal. This is especially important for those who work remotely, or engaged in freelancing. A list in which are recorded, and the workers, and household chores, only distracts and reduces productivity.

Naturally, you can combine all four approaches. Use them as you wish. The main thing is that your list of tasks has become more meaningful.