Saturday link: Scheduling projects
July 19, 2008 by Becky Scott
(www.myorganizedbiz.com) – This week I’ve been reading articles at Hack Your Day. In the article we’ll highlight today, Daniel is talking about scheduling multiple large projects.
What Daniel is referring to can also be called batch processing, and Darren at Problogger recently wrote about it, too: How batch processing made me 10 times more productive.
The basic idea is to do things in related batches. Try dedicating a particular day to a project, then the next day tackle a different project. The idea is to enhance your focus on the project and really power through some of the tasks you need to …read more
Saturday link: Setting priorities
July 12, 2008 by Becky Scott
(www.myorganizedbiz.com) – Today’s link comes from Lifehack.org. I’m reading about setting priorities, and boy is it something I need to work on.
The article talks about different approaches to setting priorities, my favorite of which is probably “Eat a Frog.” The general idea is to eat a frog, or get the most unpleasant task done early, so the worst of your day is out of the way.
But I probably practice the Covey quadrants most of the time, though. Unfortunately I’ve worked with a lot of people who live in the 3rd quadrant – where everything’s an emergency. It makes it harder …read more


