June 14, 2010

Not Today Productivity Strategy

I came up with this technique one day when I had a lot of new ideas for projects I could be working on in addition to my current projects. I felt overwhelmed so I came up with this idea to help me figure out what to do.

1. Make a big list of all your projects and all the things you should or could do.

2. Create two new lists: TODAY and NOT TODAY. 

3. Move one day worth of work into the TODAY list. Everything else goes into the NOT TODAY list.

4. Start working on the TODAY list.

5. Abandon this technique as soon as you no longer need it. I only used it for a few days.



By Michael Rakowski