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Personal task management will make you a better project manager.
Through a daily (workday) routine, I’ve found that I am indeed a goal-setter. The first thing I do when I log on is open up my notes app (Obsidian), create a new daily note, and check my calendars. This routine leads to daily and weekly goal setting at the onset of each day and allows me to keep tabs on how the day is progressing.
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As a project manager, I’ve found my weakness: keeping track of everything. As a program manager, that weakness is compounded by several concurrent projects. So, to counter this, I’ve become a reasonably decent organizer with goals (and tasks) making up most of my day. That said, here are two articles on the creation of goals; the first is about the Most Important Task (MIT) method to decipher what needs to get done now, and the second is an introduction to The Eisenhower Matrix. While I’m not a huge fan of this matrix style, some live by it.
~ryan
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