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Discussion Forum > The Time Credit Card

For this reason I'm keeping a list of "what's important" in the active page of my notebook. Indeed this is why I'm using an active page and explains the fault I ultimately found with AF4. The point of these keeping these goals here is to continually remind myself what's important and be thinking what I can do to advance these; I.e develop and work on new important tasks.

September 2, 2011 at 12:34 |

Alan Baljeu

Very good and sensible practice!

September 2, 2011 at 14:07 |

Erik

<<I opened slack in my system and about once a week, I list all the stuff I want or should do and then I pick THE most important there and then throw the paper in the trash. The I go out and search for opportunities and attack them full-out.>>

You are making a lot of sense here. The slack is what is missing in my system, I want to fill every thing up to the top.

September 3, 2011 at 1:12 |

Erin

Yeah, this is unfortunately one of the disadvantages of a Personal Kanban. You can easily fill it to the rim. Perhaps a lower number of "blocs" per day would give just enough slack...

September 3, 2011 at 6:25 |

Erik

That's the easiest problem in the world! Have one or two "do nothing" blocks.

September 3, 2011 at 14:29 |

Alan Baljeu

Yeah...!
Kanban in itself, when used in a group, is rather easy to enable slack using WIP.
I just forgot my WIP is the "done" lane ;)

On a side note, I just tried a full Eisenhower Graph Exercise and I was rather surprised and perplexed with the results!!! Not at all what I would have thought for some of the stuff that nagger me for a while.

September 3, 2011 at 16:03 |

Erik

All these problems are solved in my new system.

September 4, 2011 at 20:24 |

Mark Forster

Mark:

<<All these problems...>

All of these promises are slowly eroding the concept of Messiah. For me anyway ;)

September 4, 2011 at 20:42 |

avrum

Individuals finishing their personal work is a long way from global peace and prosperity, avrum!

September 5, 2011 at 13:48 |

Alan Baljeu