An Unorthodox System for Improving Personal Productivity

   Forget David Allen and "Getting Things Done". So long Covey and your Seven Habits.I will no longer be bound to the Time Trap. I have found the time-management strategy that is perfect for me:
  
   Structured Procrastination

   John Perry, a professor in Standford's philosophy department,had articulated a radical concept for getting things done.

"the procrastinator can be motivated to do difficult,timely and important tasks,as long as these tasks are a way of not doing something more important."

  What could be easier?

Perry notes that procrastinators rarely do nothing;they do marginally useful things as a way of avoiding more important things. The trick is to ensure you have important tasks at the top of your list thereby driving you to complete tasks of "lesser" importance.

Perry emphasises the importance of picking the right projects for the top of the list. They require two key characteristics:

  They seem to have clear deadlines(but really don't).

  They seem awfully important(but really aren't).

  I think this is going to work for me.I've got some policy manual work to do, so I'm going to reply to email that I reveived a couple of weeks ago. Once that is complete, I can consider John's thoughts on being Horizontally Organized.