Mizmir's determined to get there diary

Karmacat

Mizmir, ever since I saw your post at 1pm, I've been racking my brains to think of what it reminded me of, and I have it now: its that famous Stephen Covey book, the 7 habits of highly successful people. There's a grid in it, more or less as follows:

Top Left: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Top Right:
Important and Urgent . . . . . . . .Important and Not Urgent
eg some client meetings, . . . . . .eg weekend with friends, planning
tax bill. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . meetings

Bottom Left: . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Bottom Right
Urgent and Not Important. . . . . .Not Urgent and Not Important
eg somephone calls, emails. . . . .computer games, watching tv

I had to put the dots in to make the spaces. I love the idea of differentiating between "Urgent" and "important", thats really helpful to me.

mizmir

Thanks karma. Suspect my problem is I tend to do the not urgent, not important things first! :rotfl:Will try using that grid! :A

Karmacat

Yes, the not-urgent, not-important things are *so* much more interesting

mizmir

Wonder where browsing DFW comes on the grid?? :cool:

Morning all. Looking good so far. Profit from my matched bet ended in BF so have withdrawn a lump from there and am going to colour another square....

Just saying to Karma that I need to keep up the hypno list tradition - keeps focus.
So here goes:

• [strike]Make a list[/strike] DONE!
  
• [strike]Transfer winnings from BF[/strike] DONE!
• [STRIKE]Pay £50 off BC[/STRIKE] DONE - another square
  
• [STRIKE]Update snowball, grid, sig and anything else that gives me a warm feeling of satisfaction....[/STRIKE] DONE - love doing that
• [STRIKE]Check online banking[/STRIKE] DONE - sadly my o/d hasn't been miraculously cleared overnight...
  
• Make packed lunch
• Clean kitchen
• Do "one thing a day" on each project
• Look at work to do list and prioritise
• Have health check at work
• Go to meeting
• Clean lounge and hall (someone coming to stay at weekend :eek:)
• Update chorewars - be afraid be very afraid.....

Karmacat

I love that list! :rotfl:

[Deleted User]

Sounds like a good plan for the day.

Tea
x

lucielle

Looks like you've done lots off your list all ready.
L

mizmir

• [STRIKE]Make a list[/STRIKE] DONE!
  
• [STRIKE]Transfer winnings from BF[/STRIKE] DONE!
• [STRIKE]Pay £50 off BC[/STRIKE] DONE - another square
  
• [STRIKE]Update snowball, grid, sig and anything else that gives me a warm feeling of satisfaction....[/STRIKE] DONE - love doing that
• [STRIKE]Check online banking[/STRIKE] DONE - sadly my o/d hasn't been miraculously cleared overnight...
  
• [STRIKE]Make packed lunch[/STRIKE] DONE - and very tasty it is too!
• [STRIKE]Clean kitchen[/STRIKE] DONE
• Do "one thing a day" on each project working on....
• Look at work to do list and prioritise
• Have health check at work
• Go to meeting
• Clean lounge and hall and bathroom (someone coming to stay at weekend :eek:)
• Update chorewars after all this activity - be afraid be very afraid.....

Even more now lucielle......

mizmir

Just been thinking about how to make use of the grid karma posted for time management and found a version of it with some very useful additions:

1. important and urgent: firefighting
2. important and not urgent: quality time
3. not important and urgent: distraction
4. not important and not urgent: timewasting

Like that. The suggestion was to maximise the second of these but do the first first. Do as little as possible of 3 and 4.

boredofbeingathome

:eek: I am way behind and keep forgetting to go and update chorewars! Bob wanders off muttering to herself..i know can get locked up for that!:rotfl: