Have 2 Lists

This is good advice, from Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality:

When it comes to organizing your action steps of the day — and how your energy will be allocated — create two lists: one for urgent items and another for important ones. Long-term goals and priorities deserve a list of their own and should not compete against the urgent items that can consume your day. Once you have two lists, you can preserve different periods of time to focus on each.

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June 21, 2010 | Filed Under Productivity | 2 Comments 

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2 Responses to “Have 2 Lists”

  1. Sharon on August 16th, 2010 5:58 pm

    Interesting. This puts into theory an online implementation I use called TeuxDeux, and I’ve found it to work very well. There are slots to put daily ‘to do’ items that must happen on certain days, and then important ‘Someday’ items that have no specific completion day. (i.e. urgent vs important) Now I see why it has worked better for me than just a single to do list.

  2. Dave Kraft on January 7th, 2011 4:30 pm

    I am still a believer in one prioritized do list. A single list for each day

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