Procrastinate: whats your story?

[baronrenfrew]

Bottom left: important not urgent (time with kids, a night out with wife) bottom right not urgent not important (cutting the lawn, firewood is more urgent: guess who cuts the lawn around here)

What will automatically dominate your schedule is the urgent, but the important is what matters. I.e. Exercise, important not urgent, dental work (until it becomes urgent), roof maintenance, vehicle maintenance; relationships with those important to you; time has a way of slipping by.

To maintain your sanity here, ya gotta be on island time. My father in law cuts his grass twice per week. Me, when i have 15 chords piled and drying (it takes months to dry) then I work on other "important but not urgent" stuff. The lawn, unless we're having a party, i got other stuff to do.

[baronrenfrew]

On the to do list, roof repairs, fix broken chord on generator, clean the barn, replace all fences, new chicken yard, tear down old shed, update electrical in barn (before dad gets too old), deal with Cypress Spurge (an invasive weed thats poison to cattle, before it spreads to more land); site prep for orchard, etc.

[windwalkingwolf]

QR_BBPOST It's just a question of how long the list is.

I find it more productive to be able to distinguish between
important and urgent

80% of urgent things are a time waster anyways or follow this motto: "Why does your lack of urgency cause overtime for me?"

So work on important and be more productive.

QR_BBPOST Yep, from Seven habits of succesful people: take a sheet of paper and draw a line cutting it in 4. Top half urgent, bottom half not, left side important, right side not. Top left urgent & important (the cows got out) top right urgent not important (phone rings: "i am calling about your computer")

Yup. Needed to get the cows contained immediately. DON'T need to pull over and answer the phone. Need the truck tomorrow, so brakes got replaced tonight. Nobody will starve if I didn't get more vegetables planted today. I didn't, because of the truck. I'm well acquainted with losing sleep over my to-do list--I've been going on 5-6 hours per day for the last two weeks, and I'm one of those weirdos who likes 9. There simply aren't enough hours in the day, so I have to prioritize, sometimes multiple times a day. The barn roof leaks, but since there's no rain, it'll wait. House desperately needs cleaning, but there're other things more important, so it'll wait too.
I tend to be a bit high strung, and tend to take on so much I get overwhelmed. So multiple times a day, I ask myself "Will anyone possibly be hurt if this doesn't get done", and if the answer is "no", it doesn't get done.

[Chasinthedream]

Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow.

[ross]

I leave a list on the fridge for the NEXT guy . Lol Luck