{"id":204,"date":"2008-02-25T11:29:40","date_gmt":"2008-02-25T11:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/wp\/?p=204"},"modified":"2008-02-25T11:29:40","modified_gmt":"2008-02-25T11:29:40","slug":"time-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/2008\/02\/time-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Time Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.doycetesterman.com\/img\/google-calendar-mobile-thumb-150x156.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"156\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0;\"\/>First I talk about money management advice from John Scalzi, and now time management?<br \/>\nWell, it&#8217;s a crazy time for me right now.  When spring is in the air, and a wedding (and marriage) are on the horizon, a young(er) man&#8217;s thoughts turn to&#8230;<br \/>\nGoogle Calendar.<br \/>\nThanks to a tip from the terribly useful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parenthacks.com\">Parent Hacks<\/a>, I&#8217;ve been poking around the <a href=\"http:\/\/zenhabits.net\/#popular\">Zen Habits<\/a> website, which has really been resonating with me, mostly due to the timing of my discovering it &#8212; right now, I NEED some good advice or organizing multiple, unrelated tasks.<br \/>\nHow unrelated? Consider the bullet list of &#8216;to-do&#8217; items on my &#8216;as they occur to me&#8217; notepad:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Bendy straws.\n<li> Send hard copy of Hidden Things to [agent]\n<li> Copy [list of DVDs] to external HDD (DRM can Die in a Fire, in my humble opinion)\n<li> Get replacement tuxedo elements\n<li> Get tux info for groomsmen\n<li> Short story for Wicked Words\n<li> Car shopping\n<li> SPACE WHALES! BUBBLE NETS! SINGING!\n<li> Research preschools\n<li> For Galactic: [&#8230;] (plot thing that people don&#8217;t need to see)\n<li> [TV Pilot idea I dreamt last night]\n<li> Editing Galactic RPG for Matt\n<\/ul>\n<p>And that&#8217;s just what I&#8217;ve written down in the last two days.  Most of those have been crossed off in the last hour or so, as I have transferred them from the easy-to-carry notepad to Google Calendar and generous time slots where they have the best chance of getting done (early in the day, before other stuff can pile up) &#8212; all of which is part of the &#8220;Zen to Done, Mini-version&#8221; that&#8217;s proposed by the Zen-blog author, an edited version of which I have scribbled down in the front of that same notepad.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li> Collect &#8211; tasks, ideas, projects, information. Categorize as you collect.\n<li> Process &#8211; take that collected list (and\/or your email or snailmail inbox) and:\n<ol>\n<li> Trash it.\n<li> Delegate it.\n<li> Do it (if it&#8217;s quickly done).\n<li> File it (such as writing ideas or tax information).\n<li> Add it to the calendar\/to-dos (see &#8220;plan&#8221;)\n<\/ol>\n<li> Plan &#8211; Set up Big Jobs for the week: either Important Stuff or an intentially-clumped series of little things.\n<li> Do &#8211; Do the big things early in the day. Don&#8217;t multitask. Focus.\n<\/ol>\n<p>I recommend checking out the site if it&#8217;s something that seems remotely useful; it&#8217;s helped me get a tremendous amount of important things done in the last week or so since I&#8217;ve started working through things with this method, and (far more importantly) leaves me the time I want for things like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Date Night!\n<li> Swing dancing!\n<li> IMAX with Kaylee!\n<\/ul>\n<p>Which, to-do lists aside, are far-and-away the most Important Things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First I talk about money management advice from John Scalzi, and now time management? Well, it&#8217;s a crazy time for me right now. When spring is in the air, and a wedding (and marriage) are on the horizon, a young(er) man&#8217;s thoughts turn to&#8230; Google Calendar. Thanks to a tip from the terribly useful Parent &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/2008\/02\/time-management\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Time Management&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_import_markdown_pro_load_document_selector":0,"_import_markdown_pro_submit_text_textarea":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}