Time management, Portent-style

How I nearly wentwhacked out poo brain.

My day

45 min workout or bike to work

100+ real e-mails/day

3-4 client projects

Answer 20-30 tweets

Curate 4-15 times

2 hours on tools

2-3 sales calls

Presentation or

Blog post or

SEOmoz Q&A and

The kids

The spouse

The cats

The guinea pig

The hamster

Random shitWork shit Home shit Sleep

Time management

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From PopHangover.com Projects Milestone MilestoneTask Task Task Task

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Time management is a game.

Time management lets you getlots of cool toys.

Time management means youget to learn new stuff.

Time management makes youbetter at what you do.

Time management is aboutcontrolling distractions andmaking the most of your effort.

Time management ispart of your job.

Time management ispart of your life.

First, understand the structure

Projects

Milestones

MilestonesDeliverables that change thestatus of something, specify arecipient, and have a due date.

Milestones“Have doctor check weirdrash before Friday.”

Milestones“Have doctor check weirdrash before Friday.”Implicit deliverable:Report identifying rash

Milestones“Have doctor check weirdrash before Friday.”Dr. is recipient.

Milestones“Have doctor check weirdrash before Friday.”Status from “unknown”to “known”

Milestones“Have doctor check weirdrash before Friday.” Due date

ProjectsMilestonesTasks

Some tasks are...

BUT NOT ALL

BUT NOT ALL DAMMIT

BUT NOT ALLFOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT’S GOOD

BUT NOT ALLDON’T MAKE ME COME OVER THERE

Tasks are...Everything you do, all day, every day.

Tasks are...The basic unit of productive time.

TasksNo task > 45 minutes.

TasksNot all tasks have milestones, butall milestones have tasks.

TasksAre atomicAre planned dailyCome into focus over time

My routine

The sweep

Can you do it in 2 minutes or less?Do it now.Should someone else handle it?Delegate.Will it take longer? Make a task.

Sunday or Monday Sweep Projects Milestones/project Tasks/milestone Tasks w/ no project/milestone

Every morning Sweep Take the next 3-4 major to-dos/milestones and break them up into 45-minute actions. That’s my day’s to-do list.

During the day 45 minutes on your next to-do. 5-10 minutes doing another sweep, etc.

Measuring

Toggl.com

Pomodoro

Old-fashioned

This is not time tracking!!!!

It’s measurement

Measure as you work, not after

MEASUREMENT & IMPROVEMENT

MEASUREMENT & IMPROVEMENT DAMMIT

MEASUREMENT & IMPROVEMENT FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT’S GOOD

MEASUREMENT & IMPROVEMENT DON’T MAKE ME COME OVER THERE

Nifty tools & tricks

Mechanize what you can

Texter for Windows

,ga = http://www.google.com/analytics

,p = <p></p>

;jewwatchOur ﬁrst step is getting links removed from sites that had no intention of helping Jew Watch rank. Ivebuilt a list of the unintentional boosters. I need folks to contact these sites.Your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is:Please do the following:- Find out who to contact to remove the link from the above page(s).- Contact them and ask politely if theyd remove the link. You can use this message, or write your own:=====Dear ,I have a favor to ask. Were trying to make sure that jewwatch.com can no longer rank in the top 10 onGoogle for the word jew. You wrote an article about the site, which included a link to Jew Watch. Iknow you didnt intend to help this site, but your link, even if its nofollowed, is boostingJewWatch.coms authority.If you could remove the link (you dont have to change the article!) it would help us a great deal.Thanks,=====

Task tracking

Todo.txt

Workflowy

TeuxDeux

DropboxLaptop > Mobile > Tablet > Home

Free up brainspace

1Password

Evernote

Learn to use Excel & Word right

Learn to use Excel & Word right DAMMIT

Learn to use Excel & Word right FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT’S GOOD

Learn to use Excel & Word right DON’T MAKE ME COME OVER THERE

Learn scripting

Learn scripting 1st time: 4 hours

Learn scripting Now: 30 minutes

The result

From Wikipedia.org

http://www.portent.com	2254
http://www.devenirplusefficace.com	272
http://feeds.feedburner.com	93
http://www.ingaggio.com	73
http://jimisom.com	18
http://feeds2.feedburner.com	11
http://ffg.portentinteractive.com	10
http://beforeitsnews.com	4
http://www.unscatter.com	3
https://si0.twimg.com	2
http://www.newsisfree.com	1
https://twitter.com	1
http://omahanebusinessdirectory.com	1
http://socialmediasuperstars.collected.info	1
https://twimg0-a.akamaihd.net	1
http://www.linkedin.com	1

Time management, Portent-style

by Ian Lurie on Aug 29, 2012

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