I remember when I finally figured out that “setting priorities” has a funny way of becoming nothing more than window dressing.
I had  a job in an engineering organization that used an elaborate system of priorities to figure out who should get the highest raise each year.  The joke was that once the elaborate engineering was […]

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For most professionals, To-Do Lists are woefully inadequate.
The reason is simple — they have gotten to the point where they have too many time demands to be handled by a single ToDo list.
In the 2Time system a user has the option of selecting the level at which they mange their lists.  From White belt to […]

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One of the major ideas in 2Time is that there are some lists that serve a psychological need, such as a “Not To Do” List.
For example, I have vowed never drink lots of sugary beverages, or to allow my email inbox to grow to contain tens of items.  These are habits I am eager not […]

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Many professionals only maintain lists of items to do, and don’t actually schedule anything other than appointments into their calendars. In the language of 2Time, they may be Green Belts at the skill of
Listing, but Yellow Belts at the skill of
Scheduling.
A typical professional’s schedule is below - let’s say his name is […]

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Email is a problem for everyone who is concerned with being productive. It is a new medium and there is virtually no-one with 20 years of email experience.
Only recently have best practices begun to be developed for this difficult source of information. In the absence of these best practices, users end up with in-boxes of […]

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Listing is one of the essential practices of the 2Time Management system, especially for users above the Novice or White Belt level.
The premise is simple: it is easier and more manageable to add an item to a list than it is to add the individual item to a schedule in the calendar. For example, a […]

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There are many ways to organize lists, and there are only a few that seem to be “required” because they serve a particular and unique function:

Next Activity List: a list of all items that are ready to be executed immediately, and are on the list waiting for a scheduled time to be used. […]

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A critical part of any time management system is the activity of Listing.
In the prior component,
Scheduling, I addressed the power of expanding the use of a schedule from a mere Appointment Calendar to a possibly useful planner of each and every kind of activity that places a time demand on a user.
As […]

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