Dear Readers of the Whakate Journal,

I’ve been officially retired since November 24th, my 65th birthday and am already bored with the whole idea! As a distraction I decided to see if I could develop a new time management system which would remove some of the constraints involved in implementing the “Do It Tomorrow” system.

In particular I wanted to achieve the following:

• Keep the advantages of using closed lists, especially in the way they help one to draw impetus from “relative procrastination”;
• Introduce the advantages of open lists, which include fast processing of minor tasks, repetitive tasks and urgent items;
• The ability to throw everything at the system without its collapsing under the weight;
• Everything gets treated the same, instead of having to treat different degrees of urgency in different ways;
• Even simpler to implement than DIT;
• Responds flexibly to all situations;
• “Auto-focus”: the system itself automatically adjusts so the important stuff gets done and distractions get left to one side.

Sounds impossible? Well, it’s early days yet, but I think I may have achieved it.

Things I have noted so far:

• Complete absence of procrastination
• High motivation – can hardly keep myself away from the system
• High speed
• Much higher volume
• Because of the above, my ideas develop rapidly as I work on them

If you would like to be a “beta tester” for this system, please go to my website www.markforster.net and enter your email address in the Newsletter Sign-Up box in the right-hand margin. On the page that comes up, tick the box for “Beta Testing.”

Mark Forster
Time Management Coach and Author of “Do It Tomorrow: and other secrets of time management”

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