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The Idea
I'm not a David Allen/Getting Things Done follower, but what I do like about that approach is the focus on a single next step. Once upon a time, I was a hopelessly (and happily) non-linear thinker - but over time my head and schedule filled up with more and more and more information and it became increasingly tangled and pretty impossible to manage it all without a blueprint or map in front of me.
Shane and I have been making good use of local lunch spots and coffee shops a couple of times a week to re-gather and hammer out next steps on all of our projects, and we've talked about having something in the studio that laid those things out right in our line of vision. It needed to be something that could easily be switched out, updated, modified, and something that provided a fast, simple way to post up and then pluck off each next step off our list.
What you're seeing is the result. Each index card is a project, each yellow ticket is the next task on that project. When we're done with a task, we pull it and replace it with the next one. This is turning out to be a great board for our "spare 15 minutes" pockets we get here and there, when we're waiting for a meeting or are in between bigger things, we can look at the board to see what we can nail in the next _____ minutes.
Materials: two foam boards, two yards of fabric, spray mount, index cards and yellow construction paper. Total cost: $20.
The Idea
I'm not a David Allen/Getting Things Done follower, but what I do like about that approach is the focus on a single next step. Once upon a time, I was a hopelessly (and happily) non-linear thinker - but over time my head and schedule filled up with more and more and more information and it became increasingly tangled and pretty impossible to manage it all without a blueprint or map in front of me.
Shane and I have been making good use of local lunch spots and coffee shops a couple of times a week to re-gather and hammer out next steps on all of our projects, and we've talked about having something in the studio that laid those things out right in our line of vision. It needed to be something that could easily be switched out, updated, modified, and something that provided a fast, simple way to post up and then pluck off each next step off our list.
What you're seeing is the result. Each index card is a project, each yellow ticket is the next task on that project. When we're done with a task, we pull it and replace it with the next one. This is turning out to be a great board for our "spare 15 minutes" pockets we get here and there, when we're waiting for a meeting or are in between bigger things, we can look at the board to see what we can nail in the next _____ minutes.
Materials: two foam boards, two yards of fabric, spray mount, index cards and yellow construction paper. Total cost: $20.