Keeping on Top of Your Tasks
Posted on : 27-05-2009 | By : Lyndon | In : Organisation
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When starting a new venture it can be difficult to keep track of the 1,001 things that need doing.
If you’re anything like me then you probably make lists on pieces of paper, or even in a notebook. However this method of organisation is inherently flawed. It is, in my opinion, the best method of generating ideas as a kind of brainstorm, whereby the best ideas can be easily highlighted and the worst scribbled out! But pieces of paper and notebooks can easily become lost or damaged or even left behind at a critical time. So ideas ideally need transferring to a more flexible medium, enter my latest favourite tool, Ta-da Lists.
By it’s own admission Ta-da lists is the easiest to-do list tool available online. It’s free to sign-up and only takes 10 seconds to get going. You can create multiple lists for anything you need (see a selection of random lists) and once you complete an item you simply ‘tick’ it off!
Sharing lists amongst friends and colleagues is also as easy a 1-2-3. And accessing the list from anywhere is also just as easy with a wide range of browser support.
With a free and simple sign-up process it makes sense to take a look. What have you got to loose?
To do lists are a great way to help keep your head above water when things get really busy. One of the things I like to do with mine is break it up into four categories:
1. Urgent and important
2. Non Urgent and important
3. Urgent and not important
4. Non Urgent and not important.
This allows me to prioritise my tasks on what I should be doing, not just what is on the top of the list.
I have 3 lists on a piece of page, they are:
Could Do
Should Do
Must Do
The things on my ‘Must Do’ list take priority, if it ever gets empty (which rare) then I work through my should do list.
Great blog by the way, I am now a subscriber
very well said Peter…I will try to do that
sounds like a useful tool. Organization is a main key to keep you focused on your make money from home goals. I am an affiliate marketer and without a step by step to do list, and implementing that list. My business would be in trouble if i didn’t follow my goals!
great tips thanks!
I’m a mac user and use Apple Mail’s list and notes features. I’ve found it incredibly useful because it’s in one place I ALWAYS look, my email! Even better is that I can email a note to myself so that I have it on my iPhone on-the-go.
I love that site now… I have lists coming out of ears! Work lists, home lists, what to do, when… What bills to pay. etc. Thanks for the link!!
It can get very overwhelming if you don’t have a plan in place and one that makes sense to you. If you are trying to promote a site, you need to know what kind of marketing techniques are the best ones to use and that are effective.
What you want to do each and every night before you go to sleep is to write down what you are going to do the next day in terms of marketing.
If you are not doing this, you are going to get very frustrated and very fast.
You have to have a plan in place. That is what I do each day.
Hope this helps.
Tal