Scissors – How to Simplify Your Life
- List your routine tasks/activities.
- Estimate how much time you spend monthly (daily x 30; weekly x 4; quarterly/4) on each one.
- Why are you doing each one? How does it tie into your Life Purpose/Plan?
- Is it worth the time you’re spending on it?
- To what Objective/Goal is it related? (If not related, spell it out…or cut it out)
- What will happen if it’s not done?
- What is its classification and priority? (Important + Urgent = I)
- Does it need to be done to the degree/standard to which you’re doing it? (How do you know?)
- Is there anyone else who could do it?
- When do you do each task? Why then? (deadline, habit, etc.)
- On what is each dependent (someone else’s work, something arriving in the mail, etc.)
- What makes it easy/fun or difficult? (quiet, missing pieces, interruptions, etc.)
- Is there any other way to do it?
- Can you combine or group it with any other tasks?
- When would be the ideal time to do it?
- Can you joyfully embrace the task as God’s will for you?
- IF so, schedule the task, or place it on an appropriate list.
- Evaluate each non-routine or new task/activity in light of your objectives before you commit to it (See Priorities and Will of God)