Lesson # 8 – Working With More Projects While Avoiding Overwhelm
Summary
In this lesson, you learned about how to use priorities and filters to help you work with many projects at the same time while focusing on a much smaller number of projects at any given time.
You learned that attempting to do too much at the same time could lead you to spread yourself too thin and end up making very little progress on your projects.
You learned about horizontal time vs. vertical time and how focusing on three main things at a time while possibly reserving some time for your longer-term projects each week is a good way to balance them.
You learned how to use priorities at the project level to figure out what is most important and to help you focus on a smaller number of projects to avoid feeling overwhelmed by your Master Project List.
You learned how to use the project’s target start date to defer projects to a future date and help you reduce your current Master Project List even further.
You learned how to review your project priorities each week to help you prepare for the next weekly planning session.
Finally, you learned how to use productive procrastination to help you simplify your task lists and complete your projects with less work.
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