Struggling with shelving using lists, trees
Productivity / / December 23, 2019
As we recently wrote, for many people long to-do lists are more performance and productivity of the oppressors. And that makes sense: time management systems are usually focused on eliminating the "noise" due to lock it in the vault. And in the case with a long list we pull ourselves unnecessary information is now born.
Based on this, one must understand how to write a really good lists? You probably have your own recipes, and today I would like to share one of their methods.
It is based on the use of the mathematical concept of "trees" that may look different, but for me it epitomized in this case become mind-maps.
For me, the most frequent causes of failure in the statement of the problem began to list:
- lack of information, or loss of context;
- is too complex a task is not a simple physical action.
The solution to the first problem I have in this article will not sound, but the second we consider.
If you remember, any tree consists of roots, branches and leaves. Leaves in our case are the problem.
To solve the problem of excessive complexity, before taking a "leaf" for execution, it is necessary to think, instead of whether it consists of a sequence of actions, and if a member - to deploy them.
Why do it? Basically, in order to reduce the resistance at the beginning. Simple and obvious case as it is a shame to delay, because it is simple. So drop by drop the case spill over to the archive of executed projects, and you will make more.
Moral: if a business makes you jerk rejection, resulting in postponement of the infinite, you just need to try to grow in this case "leaves" and break it down into small and very simple actions. This can help.
Then you need only to collect leaves in the list. You can keep this list as you like: with the use of special tools or simply on paper. In addition, many special programs to work with the mind-maps have the opportunity to register nodes, making it easy to see exactly what you have chosen to be executed even if the big map. Therefore, this tool can be your list for execution.
In this case, I would not recommend to allocate more than three tasks simultaneously.