to it.
Sandy Clark wrote:
> A great book on this subject is 7 habits of highly effective
> people. Habit
> 3 talks about scheduling for a week at a time rather than on a daily
> basis.
> It also talks about there being 4 quadrants
> QI Important and Urgent
> Q2 Important and Not Urgent
> Q3 Not Important and Urgent
> Q4 Not Importantand Not Urgent
>
>
> Q3 is being driven by other people. The goal is to spend as much time as
> possible in Q2 so that Q1 doesn't happen very often. Its very relevant.
> The planplus program I spoke about earlier basically follows this, so the
> book and the program work very well together.
>
>
> They also talk about the FAT approach to handling things like email
> File it
> Act on it
> Trash it
>
>
> Basically stuff should only be handled once (twice at the outside).
>
>
> If it just needs to be filed, do so immediately (I use a program called
> Quick File which is also an Outlook add in).
>
>
> If it needs to be acted on, I immediately schedule it as either an
> appointment or a task (if I can do it anytime, I don't put a date on
> it and
> Plan Plus considers it a Master Task and I schedule it later). Acting
> on can
> mean delegating, scheduling time to do it
>
>
> Trash is pretty self explanatory.
>
>
> I've found those and a better search for Outlook via Lookout Search helps
> keep me organized and on track.
>
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