Sharpshooter
Mar 4th 2007
When it is too much work TODO you may stuck with it only just because you switch too often from one task to other. In such situations I do the following thing, I just write all TODO items in a paper as a long list. Even things like “respond to email” or “copy file” will get there. So all the enemies became are good visible.
After that I select a strategy for the war. There are three obvious:
- Kill smallest first
- Kill higher priority first
- Combination of first two.
After that the hunting begins. When the next task get finished I strikethrough it (or even rewrite the list) so list became noticeable shorter.
In most cases I select first strategy and when the list come shorter you get more courage to fight with the more complex and long-term task, so they became to look not so big sometimes they start to look even miserable.
