Step 1: Recognize Your Action Items
Step 2: Consolidate Items in One Place: STT
Step 3: Plan Today, File the Rest to the Future
If you're like most people, your list of action items is long, and it won't be possible to get everything on the list done in a single day. It's probably true as well that everything on the list doesn’t need to be completed today.
To follow the system, give yourself a reasonable set of items to accomplish today, and file everything else to the future. We’ll explain how to file items to the future in a few minutes.