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Thursday, 08 January 2009 01:01 |
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In my job as a landscape architect, I am working on up to 15 different projects at any one time. Some of them are really minor, such as helping with a site plan approval process here and there, or helping others in the office hit their deadlines. Some projects are more involved, complex projects that have looming deadlines and weeks worth of design and coordination to be done. It's hard to keep track of them all. It's hard to not let something fall between the cracks, especially when I'm constantly moving from one job to another.
Sometimes I'll be settling into a good rhythm on a project, looking forward to spending an entire afternoon finishing up a big piece of work. That's when the phone rings and it's a contractor from another project with a do-or-die site emergency. "They're getting ready to pour the concrete and we need clarification of some measurements."
How do you keep track of all of your tasks to be done? I'm interested in hearing some strategies that others use. Some people keep a notebook. They use it like a continuous professional journal, or record of all their work, meetings, to-do's, and doodles. I've been using one like that for years, but I don't find that method to be very helpful in terms of prioritizing my time.
So I'm starting a new method. It's called Taste of the Day, by Rands in Repose . It's a fairly long post, but worth a read.
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