At the moment I’m trying to get a lot of work done before a holiday deadline. So I have turned to an old favourite of mine. I’m not sure it ever got a name - official or otherwise - but I wrote about it under the title of Another Simple and Effective Method.
It is a really effective method for powering through a lot of hard work. If you’ve never tried it then maybe you should.
There is a problem with this method which is that it ends up with a lot of single tasks which have to be done on the next pass. I don’t like ever having no choice about what I do next so I have changed the rules to avoid singletons. The new rules are:
1. A single task is treated as part of the next group of tasks for the next selection.
2. If the single task is the one selected, then the next group of tasks is selected from again.
This sounds complicated but is easy in practice. It is just a matter of remembering that you must always give yourself a choice of tasks (at least two) to select from.