Properly posed problem - half the success. lists problems

If once again turn their attention to the lists, you can easily notice that these lists to the maximum utility should not only be brief, but contain a basic action, not abstract wishes. Even the mini-projects, obviously, it would seem, for you may be a problem.

Abstract wishes must also be a place. The GTD method for their assigned folder Someday / Maybe. But do list for today must be specific and concise. So that it could understand the team-Gast Arbeiter.

Feel free to feel like a foreman at a construction site and give yourself a day job. Do not rely on the fact that the performer can think out for you, do not cut the right information in the hope that the perpetrator will remember everything.

Write down exactly what you need to accomplish the task without too much thought. Exactly about trying to have the right things in the list and will be discussed today.

Like anything complicated about it. However, on the way from the appearance of the problem or idea to the actual entry in the list for execution can happen a lot of interesting things.

For example, a mother can, in response to your letter (after all, so it is more convenient than to create something new, right?) To ask you to bring it out of the city a new mixer. Man efficient and, interestingly, knowing the possibilities of the mailerBy checking / asterisk on this report automatically "turning" a letter to the task. It would seem, what's the problem?

A problem here is that when you consider that you are lucky on the weekends, then you are the problem logically postponed until Saturday, and Saturday looking to do list, instead of a specific "Take mixer Kolka and taken to his mother," see "Sashka's first steps" with asterisk. It turns out that without having to look at the letter itself, you will never understand, and what should be done. I personally do not remember exactly, because a week is too many emails pass through me.

I.e when receiving a message from my mother asking simply need to create a new taskContaining possibly a brief but accurate assignment recorded as simple as possible.

With the letters clear, they are confusing, and a letter with a check - is not the equivalent of the problem. Flags logical to put on their letters, to control the reaction of the recipient.

On the second issue, leading to loss of information and challenging task in the list, I'll discuss in the next post. Secretly I tell you that this is due to decomposition, that is the correct planning from the top down.