How To Get It Done When It Feels Like “Someday, Maybe”
How To Get It Done When It Feels Like “Someday, Maybe”
By chris danilo on Aug 03, 2018 05:00 am
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David Allen’s “Getting Things Done” method calls this the “Someday Maybe” list.
The Agile framework refers to this as the “Icebox.”
It doesn’t really matter what you call it, as long as you’ve gone one.
It’s a list that has all of those projects you know you need to do at some point but either aren’t fully hashed out enough to be important or aren’t urgent enough to make it to the to-do list.
The tricky part, though, actually isn’t writing the list. The tricky part is only having one list and remembering to revisit it every 6 months or every quarter, or in whatever interval you find functional.
2 Minute Action:
Create an Icebox in iOS reminders, Trello, Google Keep, Evernote, or whatever task management tool you use.
This is it. This is your list. You’re not allowed to have duplicate lists (not even one digital and one physical).
Only one.
Now set a reminder on your phone, or in Slack, or wherever you set reminders, to run through this list once a quarter.
The future is much more likely to happen, now.
And that’s what it’s all about, right? Putting the odds in your favor?
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