Like probably everybody else in our industry I have a lot of tasks I should be working on at any given point in time. The question always is, how do I best get a handle on all the things I should/want to be doing?
For a long time I tried to use the system Steven Covey suggested in “The Seven Habits of Highly Successful People“. The book is great and everything Covey says is very true. But as a time management system it fails. It reminds me a lot of the old waterfall.
- Fist you have to have a mission,
- then you have to define your roles,
- then every week you have to plan what to do to achieve your mission within your roles.
- Every Task should be scheduled at the beginning of the week to be worked on on a given day of the week – just like an appointment.