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Your quarterly "to-do" list is now your master list. It tells you
at a glance what your priorities are, and it incorporates all of
the aspects of your life - work, home, maintenance tasks and
personal projects and goals. As new chores, priorities and
opportunities pop up in your life, they can be smoothly
incorporated into this list.
About the Author: Allison Van Norman runs Organizing Solutions, a San Francisco bay area business devoted to teaching people how to get organized. For more information, go to her Organizing Solutions web site organizing-solutions.net Inspiration "If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old." --Edward W. Howe  "It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought." --Aristotle |
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 Assigning Tasks First, make a reference list of frequent maintenance tasks - the ones that happen monthly or more often. For the biweekly and monthly tasks, assign a regular date. For instance, you might always pay the rent on the 27th, and you might always pay bills on the first and third Tuesday of the month. Assign a regular day for weekly tasks: Laundry on Mondays, grocery shopping on Fridays or whatever works for you. Be aware, however, that if you schedule all of your household chores for Saturday or Sunday, you'll wake up that morning feeling like you have to go to work. I find it easier to spread them throughout the week. |
Next, take out that small calendar I mentioned in the beginning -
the one that has just one page for each month. Look at your
"Maintenance" list, and circle all of the tasks that should
occur less often than monthly. For instance, you probably go
to the dentist only once or twice a year. Assign each of these
tasks to a given month. Again, this will sometimes be arbitrary.
What you want to do is to sprinkle the tasks as evenly throughout
the year as possible. When you've finished this calendar, you
should add the maintenance tasks for the next three months to
your quarterly "to-do" list.
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