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What’s on your plate?

Are your to-dos and projects piling up?
Are you getting overwhelmed by the never-ending list?
It might help you to really see what’s on your plate and not have too many projects.

First set your table (dining room table if possible) with six plates.
Put one project or to-do on each plate. (return this, fix that, call the other)
Do just one at a time.

Don’t add another project to the table until a plate is clear. Don’t even bring it in the room.
If you have to move something to the front of the priority line, then take something else off your plate. Now you have limited the number of items you’re doing for the day/week… and you are not overwhelmed by the rest.
I set up a similar system with a client  who is a crafter who was always starting new projects, but not finishing them.

We used drawers to hold incomplete craft projects.
We set up a system with 6 drawers.
Each drawer holds one project.
She can only do one project at a time, and doesn’t start another one until finishing one, opening up a drawer.

If you have to move something to the front of the priority line, then take something else off your plate.

1 Comment to “What’s on your plate?”

  1. Dan Bresler says:

    Where do you start if you have no room to start out with?