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| | I have worked at home for more than 20 years, and have always been a fan of the 'to do' list as a means of getting things done. I have never had a particular problem with motivation (mine has always been, 'if I don't do it, no one else will, and I won't be able to put in an invoice!'), but it's always good to hear how other people get through the work load, and how they organise their time. |
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| I also function using 'to do' lists. Use both paper based lists which give great satisfaction when 'crossed out' and also use tasks within Microsoft Outlook to remind me to do things that need to be done in a few weeks time.
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| I have so many to do lists I think I need a to do list for my to do lists 
Seriously, I tend to have 3 going at any one time - Home, Work, Garden. This way I know what I have to do with all 3.
As far as work goes, I have 5 main folders at the top of my Outlook - labeled Monday t Friday, and within each of those I have sub folders for Client things, Admin, marketing, Misc, Forums, To Read, Personal and Proposals - every email gets sorted into one of those folders as it comes in and the goal is to empty the days folders before the end. Of course it never works like that but it does make me more organised than I was before
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| If I didn't use lists I don't think I could function!
I use a combination of journalistic pads (one for each business), flipped to the latest list and updated as necessary (ie when I can't see what needs doing through all the crossings out and addings!), plus day lists on stickies (tiny space so really have to really whittle it down to what I can achieve that day) and boards.
Boards? Yep - we have a blackboard in the kitchen for the groceries and household reminders, which the girls add to when they finish stuff, from shampoo to cat food, so it's not just me keeping track of what needs restocking or doing. And two white boards in the office - one for my general list of what needs doing in each business over the next month or so (more big picture stuff than the pads, which tend to be a weekly list at most, usually just a couple of days - and quite in depth) and the other board for the monthly editorial schedule for that month's magazine production.
The list on the latter board is colour coded, and initialed at each stage, so the whole team can see at a glance whether the articles or pictures are in, whether they've been processed, in production, whatever, and so know exactly where we are at any given moment, until it goes to print and then out to subscriptions and the newsstands.
I also use iCal on my mac for reminders, specially for the children's appointments - I'm good at entering those in my physical diary but not so good at remembering to check my diary every morning! Luckily the children are VERY good nowadays at reminding me!
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