Tagged planning
Not that kind of goal...
It is not just todo lists and planning that can make your week a little easier, and increase your productivity. As you probably know, I have my own strategy when it comes to managin my week all figured out, I wrote about it in the post Using Weekly Planning to Increase Productivity, and unless you have read that one already, you probably should do so before moving on to this one.
By setting up weekly goals in conjunction with your todo lists and scheduled work, you’ll be able to get those more fluid tasks under control as well. This is how I do it. Read more →
Mondays suck, I regularly have that awful Garfield moment where I realize it is Monday, and that I just don’t want it to be. It’s not that I hate my work week or anything, or that the weekend is such a killer that I want it to never be over, it’s more of a feeling of having to pick myself up. All the way up.
I really hate Mondays.
The good part about these blasted days is that it is when I do my weekly planning, giving myself weekly goals, and a todo list. I have done this for years, trying various ways to manage this system, and have found a model that works for me. It might not work for you, but if it doesn’t, you can always port it to some other way of managing it, to fit your workflow. Read more →
I’m finding myself less eager to use digital calendars. Previously, I had all my planning in Google Calendar. That made sense because I needed to share it with co-workers, but when that need more or less disappeared I found myself wanting something else.
Enter the Mac and iCal, a nice enough calendar that comes pre-loaded in OS X. It’s good, it has a todo-list, something I missed in Google Calendar, having switched from Outlook in the first place. I’ve used iCal for quite some time, but now I want to move on. Read more →