You probably have a to-do list where you keep adding all the things that you have to do. How do you decide when to work on some task? Do you look at the complete to-do list and then pick up the one which is the most urgent?

@AugustBradley recommends you have a "do date" for each of your tasks.

What is do date?

The "do date" of a task is the date on which you decide to take action on a task.

The action may be to work on the task and complete it (fully or partially). Or you may re-schedule it for a later date.

With a do date assigned, you have told yourself that you will take action on the task on that day.

How does it help

• When you assign "do dates" to your tasks, you can easily plan your week. You can decide what you will do on each day of the week.

• This way, you do not have to see a big laundry list of all the tasks you have to do each time you have to decide what next step to take.

• This also lets you plan for a long time in the future. You could have tasks with "do dates" months later so that you do not miss them.

How do you schedule your tasks?