Sadly, the limits of my task manager are to remind me of the task. No matter how I hope that somehow it will simplify the tasks, or better yet, eliminate the need for them, it refuses to do more than accuse me with the ones that have not been done.

It is better than having a client call and having to fess up that you completely forgot that you had a job to do for them, at least this way, you can be thinking up good excuses before they call. But still, those red flags can be really demoralizing.

At first, your goal is to keep from getting any red flags for overdue projects. Next your goal is to keep from getting any REALLY IMPORTANT red flags. And eventually, your goal is to not have ALL red flags!

Part of the problem is that we get buried with work, and then devise a strategy to keep ahead of it. As soon as we do that, we think we can take on more work! So we are quickly behind again, and in need of a new strategy to catch up. Efficiency in stages.

The task manager has been a shining success, in spite of it’s sad deficiency in actually DOING the work.  But I’m still behind on blog posts.