A Year Ago On Organize IT: Trim Your To-Do List, Key Rules For Organizing Systems And Should You Simplify Your Life?

November 14th 2008   Featured Content   0 comments

A year ago on Organize IT you were reading:

The Three Key Rules For Any Organizing System
“Every system or tool you have setup to organize your life, whether it be the filing cabinet at work, the drawer in the kitchen or your home cleaning schedule, will ultimately flourish or fall apart depending on how easily it functions in three key areas.”

Simplifying Our Lives: Is It A Lost Cause?
“One thing that has always niggled away at the back of my mind when focusing on a simplified life is that all the practices seem to run contrary to the way society is evolving. If you think we have demands on our time or are overwhelmed with information and choice now, it will only get worse in the future. Rather than trying to fight (an arguably losing war) with this inevitability by simplifying everything, should we not be learning to deal with?”

10 Ways To A Slim And Trim To-Do List
“Your to-do list is not the place for putting general reminders, even if you do phrase it into the form of a next action. For instance, don’t put down ‘go to dentists at 9AM’ or ‘buy milk from the supermarket.’ That’s what calendars and shoppings lists are for.”

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