2. Use MS Word, arrange goals and sub goals as headings and subheadings Saving Changes...
Walter PilimonCEO| Web Dev Experts SRLBuenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1. Consider all the time that your routine work and personal tasks take. Block that time from your schedule
2. Now take your most important goal and plan for it. Break it down in intermediate achievements. Estimate the time it will take you to do each of them.
3. If you have few other goals, go ahead and distribute the time along your available time slots. Do not plan for perfection. Assume you will not be able to achieve 6 hours of work in 6 hours of work. Contingencies also happen. I would say only plan for at most 75% of your available free time.
4. I have used two tools that are very easy: one is a Gmail add-on, that you can add to Chrome as an extension, but can also be used standalone over the web. It is called Todoist. The other tool is also a Chrome extension called TrackingTime.
Now, please, do the following. Plan for the next 2 weeks. Then check if you were able to do all you planned. Try to find you errors and plan the next 2 weeks. If you get better, you are on the good path. Else you have serious work problems and no planning will help you. In fact you will be wasting time rescheduling and replanning. Quite probably you should plan for less, possibly 30% less work to be achieved. Then see what happens.
No planning is useful if you cannot complete it in time. The rollover rescheduling will frustrate you and tire you up. Be realistic
Just my two cents. Thanks!
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1 reply by Justin Wortley
Sep 09, 2016 10:12 PM
Justin Wortley
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I like your style. I do a majority of my task-based planning with Outlook. We use office 365 so the ability for me to have access to my task list/calendar from anywhere is easily done. I do really well with checklists so I have daily tasks lists in outlook and just add to them as necessary.
Maybe I'm traditional, but for my daily goals, I use my traditional notebook. I've tried with words, excels...but at the end of the day I always grabbed a piece of paper. Saving Changes...
Walter PilimonCEO| Web Dev Experts SRLBuenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Sure, paper is the first place to start. Once you have all clear on paper you can resort to using technological tools to track time used and set reminders to help you keep on schedule. Saving Changes...
Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten AssociatesNew Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
I actually record all what I need to do for the day on a note book and add / remove items as the day progresses. Saving Changes...
Justin WortleyProject Manager| Quicken LoansDetroit, Mi, United States
Sep 09, 2016 11:56 AM
Replying to Walter Pilimon
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1. Consider all the time that your routine work and personal tasks take. Block that time from your schedule
2. Now take your most important goal and plan for it. Break it down in intermediate achievements. Estimate the time it will take you to do each of them.
3. If you have few other goals, go ahead and distribute the time along your available time slots. Do not plan for perfection. Assume you will not be able to achieve 6 hours of work in 6 hours of work. Contingencies also happen. I would say only plan for at most 75% of your available free time.
4. I have used two tools that are very easy: one is a Gmail add-on, that you can add to Chrome as an extension, but can also be used standalone over the web. It is called Todoist. The other tool is also a Chrome extension called TrackingTime.
Now, please, do the following. Plan for the next 2 weeks. Then check if you were able to do all you planned. Try to find you errors and plan the next 2 weeks. If you get better, you are on the good path. Else you have serious work problems and no planning will help you. In fact you will be wasting time rescheduling and replanning. Quite probably you should plan for less, possibly 30% less work to be achieved. Then see what happens.
No planning is useful if you cannot complete it in time. The rollover rescheduling will frustrate you and tire you up. Be realistic
Just my two cents. Thanks!
I like your style. I do a majority of my task-based planning with Outlook. We use office 365 so the ability for me to have access to my task list/calendar from anywhere is easily done. I do really well with checklists so I have daily tasks lists in outlook and just add to them as necessary.
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1 reply by Rami Kaibni
Sep 09, 2016 10:17 PM
Rami Kaibni
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True, it is handy. I do the major tasks and planning on the Outlook.
Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten AssociatesNew Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Sep 09, 2016 10:12 PM
Replying to Justin Wortley
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I like your style. I do a majority of my task-based planning with Outlook. We use office 365 so the ability for me to have access to my task list/calendar from anywhere is easily done. I do really well with checklists so I have daily tasks lists in outlook and just add to them as necessary.
True, it is handy. I do the major tasks and planning on the Outlook. Saving Changes...
Daniel KrompholzPrincipal Maintenance Systems Specialist, Asset Management| The Port Authority of New York & New JerseyJamaica, Ny, United States
Read the One Minute Manager, it is a fantastic book, very easy to read and also gives you the best simple advice when you manage people in terms of the objectives that should be set Saving Changes...
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