Creating the right to-do list

September 19, 2007

I have been creating to-do lists for a while, but they didn’t really work. Why? Because they were just lists of work I still have to do. I only listed the names of the companies and persons whose work I was doing.

I decided to expand my to-do list. Now, instead of just listing the jobs I have to do, I am going to list briefly what there still is left to do on that particular project.

The moral

I personally always thought I can remember everything. So when I wrote “Raoul”, I expected myself to know exactly what there still is to be done for Raoul. Bit if there are 4 or 5 other names on the list, it can start to become confusing. And it is this confusion that makes it look like I never get done with my work, forcing me to work late at night.

With a list of unfinished work for Raoul, it gets a lot easier to finish it step by step, knowing what there is to do. This creates an overview of the work that still needs to be done in total.

Maybe, just maybe, if I could pull up a calendar, I could do some planning…

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