JDU Task & Project Management course: quick update

A quick update for those of you looking out for the next JDU course.

I've been working on this for at least a year. All through the Workshop I promise to show Lucy how to manage her to-do list using her new system and then ... I never do.

Because I didn't know how. I was still working it out. Turns out it's a hard problem.

Task & Project Management

I don't yet have the pithy New York Times-bestselling title for this thing. What I've realised is that most of us need to manage two quite distinct things: tasks and projects.

Tasks are the one-offs that you might think of as 'to-dos' or 'reminders'. Pay the bill. Buy the milk. Cancel the subscription. Call the vet. They're often time-bound. They're chores. Doing them makes your life not-worse.

Then we have projects. This is the good stuff that helps you achieve your long-term goals. This is what you want to spend your free time doing. This stuff shouldn't be a chore. And yet it feels like we spend so little time doing it.

These two things require very different treatment. I have a method that I've been using myself for the best part of a year, that I now have in the structure of videos that can be recorded. There's still a little more of that to do, then I need to record them and Lucy needs to do the post-production.

It's the thing I'm working on the hardest. It'll be out soon.