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Too Many Time-Weapons

I asked a coaching client to bring all of his time management weapons to our first meeting. “Everything?” he said.

He showed up with a tabletop full of stuff. Multiple lists, pads of paper, his phone, even a full-size desktop calendar. He must have had almost a dozen tools in all!

One of the first things he said was, “I don’t know how I keep up with all of these!” then he laughed and added, “I guess that’s part of the trouble!”

He had about four different to-do lists. Personal, work, and family calendars. And his contacts were scattered across three addresses books including a desktop box of business cards. We discussed how many productivity apps would allow him to merge these separate calendars and contacts into one source and color-code them from where they came from.

A long afternoon later, we had consolidated his tools so that he was using only one of each tool. This meant combining his tasks lists, merging his address books, and more. He created one to-do list to encompass all his work and collated his contacts into a single contact list on his phone. Finally, he added all of his calendars to one app and color-coded them by their area of responsibility.

When we were done, he had a much simpler set of tools that was infinitely more accessible and best suited to his personality and needs.