Today’s tip is one I picked up from Simple Mom (which is a really great place for the picking up of tips, by the way). I put together my version of one of her Daily Dockets a while back, and it did wonders for me in terms of getting my stuff together. Then I thought it would be terrific to have my pages laminated and spiral-bound, so I could use them over and over again. That was a few months ago, when a work thing had Rockford stopping by Kinkos pretty much every morning. So I gave the pages to him, he took them to Kinkos, and … no one ever picked them up. I’m guessing Kinkos has tossed them by now.

But that wasn’t the point I was trying to make here.

The most helpful part of the Daily Docket for me is the making of the Most Important Tasks list. As the name suggests, you pick the day’s top priorities and give them their own special place on your to-do list. And then you do them.

There was a special place for those three-to-five items on my Daily Docket pages. Fortunately, though, I can write down a few important things on a non-specialized piece of paper. Yesterday I only managed to do three of the five. But on a day when I don’t write ’em down? I might’ve accomplished one of the five.

One of these days I’ll put “Reprint the Daily Docket” on my Most Important Tasks lists. Until then, though, jotting those MITs down on a scrap of paper will have to work for me.

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