To Do List or Daily Plan?

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I’m time challenged and have been as long as I can remember.  Using my Franklin Covey Compact 2 pages per day has enabled me to hold things together pretty well. But things have changed.  My life has changed.  And my Franklin Covey 2 pages per day don’t fit as well as they used to. I played around with a Filofax using the two pages per day format and even the weekly format with a … [Read more...]

Routines, Checklists, To-Do Lists – What’s the Difference?

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If you’re not a planner nerd like I am, you may not care what the difference is.  But there is a difference and it’s important! Routines are things you do regularly without really thinking about it.  For example, every day when I get up, I make my bed.  It’s not on my to-do list – it’s just something I do.  Then I go into the bathroom and get ready for the day.  Again, not on my … [Read more...]

How To Make a Realistic To Do List

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Traditional time management methods state that you should make a list of 5 to 10 things you need to do, prioritize them in order of importance and then start with the most important and work your way down the list. That sounds like it should work, but it doesn’t work for me and I’m guessing it doesn’t work for a lot of people.  Here are some reasons it doesn’t work for me: My … [Read more...]