There are three (closely-related) reasons that incorporating a new tool into your time management system often fails: It is too complicated It is too inflexible It is too hard Too Complicated A tool is too complicated when it does too many extra things that you don’t need. For example, the much heralded Kinkless GTD is too complicated for me because it […]
Moving parts break. CDs became popular back when I was in high school. I remember going through three Discmen in those four years. Each of them cost about $100-150. I also have an old walkman radio dating back from before CDs. It still works the same way it did when it was new. The radio cost […]
The Scope of my System The characteristics of your work setup define which features your time management system needs and which tools are available to you. My time management system is defined by the following characteristics: I work from home, off of one computer. This means: I don’t need contexts I use all desktop software and no web software. Because the […]
It’s been Field-Tested Five years ago the company I worked for asked me to start using a Franklin-Covey Planner. Like many others, I found that using a time management system helped me get more stuff done. It has been five years since that first Franklin Planner and I have experimented with many different tools and systems since […]