Getting Things Done
CHAPTER 7 | ORGANIZING: SETTING UP THE RIGHT BUCKETS Checklists at All Levels
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Getting things done
CHAPTER 7 | ORGANIZING: SETTING UP THE RIGHT BUCKETS
Checklists at All Levels Be open to creating any kind of checklist as the urge strikes you. The possibilities are endless—from "Core Life Values" to "Things to Take Camping." Making lists, ad hoc, as they occur to you, is one of the most powerful yet subtlest and simplest procedures that you can install in your life. To spark your creative thinking, here's a list of some of the topics of checklists I've seen and used over the years: • Personal Affirmations (i.e., personal value statements) • Job Areas of Responsibility (key responsibility areas) • Travel Checklist (everything to take on or do before a trip) • Weekly Review (everything to review and/or update on a weekly basis) • Training Program Components (all the things to handle when putting on an event, front to back) • Clients • Conference Checklist (everything to handle when putting on a conference) • Focus Areas (key life roles and responsibilities) • Key People in My Life/Work (relationships to assess regularly for completion and opportunity development) • Organization Chart (key people and areas of output to manage and maintain) • Personal Development (things to evaluate regularly to ensure personal balance and progress) Get comfortable with checklists, both ad hoc and more per- manent. Be ready to create and eliminate them as required. Appropriately used, they can be a tremendous asset in personal productivity. If in fact you have now collected everything that represents an open loop in your life and work, processed each one of those items in 179 PRACTICING STRESS-FREE PRODUCTIVITY | PART TWO terms of what it means to you and what actions are required, and organized the results into a complete system that holds a current and complete overview—large and small—of all your present and "someday" projects, then you're ready for the next phase of imple- mentation in the art of stress-free productivity—the review process. \ 180 Reviewing: Keeping Your System Functional THE PURPOSE OF this whole method of workflow management is not to let your brain become lax, but rather to enable it to move toward more elegant and productive activity. In order to earn that freedom, however, your brain must engage on some consistent basis with all your commitments and activities. You must be assured that you're doing what you need to be doing, and that it's OK to be not doing what you're not doing. Reviewing your system on a regular basis and keeping it current and functional are pre- requisites for that kind of control. If you have a list of calls you must make, for example, the minute that list is not totally current with all the calls you need to make, your brain will not trust the system, and it won't get relief from its lower-level mental tasks. It will have to take back the job of remembering, processing, and reminding, which, as you should know by now, it doesn't do very effectively. All of this means your system cannot be static. In order to support appropriate action choices, it must be kept up to date. And it should trigger consistent and appropriate evaluation of your life and work at several horizons. There are two major issues that need to be handled at this point: • What do you look at in all this, and when? • What do you need to do, and how often, to ensure that all of it works as a consistent system, freeing you to think and manage at a higher level? Download 2.58 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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