Finishing Projects

Posted on February 1, 2008 by LJ

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Photo by Mr. Mystery I am vaguely aware that my project list has crept up in size. Once again, my desires have exceeded my capacity. I was looking at the projects I haven’t moved on, in an effort to jump start some things and start being productive again.

The problem is that not everything gets moved on every day or week. I have good intentions, but things aren’t necessarily making progress. That leads me to reconsider my approach. Instead of having a bunch of projects with a “whenever I get to them but before the ones on the someday list”, I think I need to limit the projects I have and finish them before moving on.

This may seem to be obvious to some people, but it is a revelation to me. So I will go through my projects and stick to the five most important this week, and finish them.

I’ll report back next week to say how it went.

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  4. Using Bonsai with Getting Things Done: Working Lists
  5. Using Bonsai with Getting Things Done: Review Filters

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Comments (3)

 

  1. SimpleProductivityBlog.com says:
    February 8, 2008 at 4:02 am

    [...] by cole24_Last week in “Finishing Projects” I wrote about how I was going to limit my active projects and work on that smaller subset until [...]

  2. Making Real Progress: Make a list of things you would like to finish up from last year.—SimpleProductivityBlog.com— says:
    February 29, 2008 at 4:02 am

    [...] by manu contrerasOver the past few weeks, I have been trying very hard to wind up projects. (See Finishing Projects and Update On Finishing Projects). I find myself still looking at things that have been started, [...]

  3. 5 Steps to Slimming Your Projects List—SimpleProductivityBlog.com— says:
    March 21, 2008 at 5:03 am

    [...] making the discovery that I get more done with a smaller projects list, I decided to formalize my approach to slimming [...]