Mental Productivity & Piece of Mind – How Often To Use Your Trigger Lists
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Cheryl Antier, our FFOP Monday Featured Author, posed some questions about the trigger list that was sent out in the newsletter last week.
One thing that she mentioned was about how to use the trigger list. Let’s expound upon that.
The trigger list is meant for you to use to do a large mind dump. The first one will obviously take a bit of time to sit down and do. How often you use it after that is completely up to you. I cannot see myself using that absolutely huge trigger list more than once every other month or so. I think if you were to do this weekly, you’d spend more time dumping your mind than actually using it!
Trigger lists are meant to start you out fresh, with everything dumped from your mind. From that point forward, it’s up to you to stay on top of your “mind” and getting things out of it, and put into a safe place (written down or in your cloud mind dumping application). You can use anything to keep this list: a simple piece of paper or the cloud application that you have found that you really like.
After the trigger list, you have to keep up upon the maintenance of yourself.
No one can do this part for you, it’s all up to you. Keep dumping each and every little thing down and out of your mind. It might be beneficial to do a trigger list at the start of a new project, or at the beginning of a new year. Or you might just do one whenever you are starting to feel that overwhelm start to creep in again.
I hope that clears up the trigger list and how to start out with it. The important thing to remember is to maintain…….that is the key!
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My first mind dump was so big, I haven’t been able to “do, delay, delegate, or dump (?)” yet. I just went to a business conference where I captured just a handful of profound ideas, and I’m feeling overwhelmed. I wrote most of them down, but I need to incorporate them into the master list.
I may just do a new mind dump. What doesn’t come over from the old list will probably be things I subconsciously categorized “dump” or considered them “delay” and let them be captured on the next mind dump.
Am I on the right track?
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Kris reply on December 11th, 2008 8:19 am:
Sorry for the delay in replying, Dave.
Ultimately it’s your choice what you’d like to do, but here’s what I recommend.
Do not do another mind dump. Get your current dump dealt with, categorized, and manageable. Then, when all that is out of the way, do another mind dump.
In the meantime, when thoughts just pop into your head that you don’t won’t to forget, jot them down and add those to the second dump that you do.
Process the old, then in with the new. Please let me know how it goes!
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