I am guilty of leaving these unmade or pending decisions floating around in Facebook messages or in my email inbox.
Bad idea.
I use my planner to plan, and without the pending decisions noted in my planner, I might double book the dates or forget to check on the information that I need.
This time a year, Christmas party invites are plentiful and we cannot make all the events. Also, gifts are ordered and will be arriving at home, so I need to plan to be around, but in between arrivals, I need to get errands done.
Since I use erasable Frixion pens, I "pencil" stuff onto my monthly events/appointments calendar using a question mark.
In the example below, I penciled in a furniture delivery (waiting on confirmation of morning or afternoon, which is expected tomorrow) and a few Christmas parties (waiting on information about family obligations before RSVP'ing yes or no).
I also add a task to my weekly spread to remind me of either what I need to do, the deadline for the decision, or what/who I am waiting on.
For furniture, I'll write "@AF: delivery time" on Tuesday's entry (translation: @ = pending; AF = the name of the furniture store; delivery time = what information I am waiting on). For the Smith party, I'll write "O^c RSVP Smith" on Thursday's entry (translation: O = task; ^c = context code of "at computer"; RSVP Smith = the task).
That's two steps.
1. Pencil in the event with a question mark.
2. Create the next action task or a pending note.
Pending decisions are now obvious on my planner and ready for me to deal with in a timely manner.
Etcetera.
4 comments:
OregaglI like your abbreviation system. Would work great for me since I use a monthly insert system and could use the room! Frixion pens rule, but dont use them to send anything through the mail. Experience speaking, lol
This is a good way to keep track of things. I'm going to start using it. Thanks for the tip! :)
Good idea for pending events. Sometimes I'll add them on a post it or post it flag, then take them out once the decision is made. That doesn't work if you have a lot at once though.
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