How to prioritize contexts when multiple are “available”

[ivanjay205]

A lot of people struggle with 90 percent of their work being in a laptop context. While that is somewhat true for me it is manageable and not a problem.

What is a problem is when I am in my office and my office context, laptop, and calls are all “available”. I can work on any of those. So how do I decide / prioritize which to do? I find myself defaulting to laptop a lot and calls and in office tasks sit just because I focus on laptop ones.

 

[gtd solo-studente]

A lot of people struggle with 90 percent of their work being in a laptop context. While that is somewhat true for me it is manageable and not a problem.

What is a problem is when I am in my office and my office context, laptop, and calls are all “available”. I can work on any of those. So how do I decide / prioritize which to do? I find myself defaulting to laptop a lot and calls and in office tasks sit just because I focus on laptop ones.

@ivanjay205

The 'only' way to know what one is not doing is see what the possibilities are in a current context and do what seems most important . . . if unclear . . . go with the shortest to 'best' decrease any less favorable effects from 'should have been doing such-&-such . . . something else' ?

As you see GTD fit. . . .

 

[schmeggahead]

A lot of people struggle with 90 percent of their work being in a laptop context. While that is somewhat true for me it is manageable and not a problem.

What is a problem is when I am in my office and my office context, laptop, and calls are all “available”. I can work on any of those. So how do I decide / prioritize which to do? I find myself defaulting to laptop a lot and calls and in office tasks sit just because I focus on laptop ones.

When I review sufficiently, I understand what is effective to act upon right now, regardless of context. I make myself available in that significantly effective context to complete that next action.

Review your system until you know it cold. You know what has your attention so well that it isn't a question of which item to do. It is a question of why am I not doing this very effective thing?

When you have't reviewed sufficiently, you are in a way always trying to complete a weekly review and not completing it. So keep doing it until you understand your work well enough to do a better next thing.

Clayton

When you don't know what you are trying to accomplish, any path will do because when you don't know your destination, getting there is guess work.