Scannable Outcome Lists

I realized another key for helping manage To Dos.  It's having scannable lists of outcomes.  I keep flat lists of outcomes chunked by area or project.  These aren't the next actions.  They're the results I want to accomplish.  They act as prompts to help me quickly identify next actions.

I keep lists for all my various areas for outcomes:

• Continuous Improvement: mind, body, career, relationships, financial
• Projects
• Ideas
• Goals and committments
• Recurring items (such as backup, status reports)
• Habbits or practices I'm developing
• Training
• Information sources (places or people that I routinely browse or pull information from)

In a single view, I can first scan all of my areas.  I can then quickly scan any particular area for outcomes.  What I like about this approach is that I get a bird's-eye view of all the areas that I'm working on.  Because I like to focus on a given area for results, I could easily neglect areas.  This approach keeps important things on my radar and helps keep me balanced.

I use my scannable outcome lists in conjunction with my personal approach for daily results.

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Comments

• Anonymous
  February 22, 2007
  I find your blog very interesting, instructive and among all inspiring. I have a question or rather a request; Could you make/illustrate in a more practical manner how you manage the work flow of this post and the “my personal approach for daily results” please? :-) Thanks in advance Regards /Christoffer

• Anonymous
  February 25, 2007
  Some readers asked to hear more on how I use my Scannable Outcome Lists in conjunction with My Personal

• Anonymous
  February 25, 2007
  Hey Christoffer - Thanks for the kind words!  I wrote a new post to help explain the flow.  Enjoy!

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  March 25, 2007
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