You know about our interest in personal productivity.

And our next business briefing is going to be about choice.

This blog integrates the two…with the Ds of time management.

Pretty much all authors and experts are agreed on first three when faced with a new demand for some of your time and commitment:

1) Do it, if you can, in next 10 mins

2) Delegate it to someone else if you can

3) Delay it to another point in the next 10 days if you don’t have time or a colleague

The choice there might seem simple – but the habits can be hard to develop…

And for a harder choice, what should we do with the rest of the requests and issues?

One option is to Delete: don’t stockpile – dump anything you cant handle with the other 3Ds above

Or Detail it: add entries to a long, long list.

(This links to our blog of 17 Nov 2011 on memory – “To memorise or…” have a look)

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