To many details ... Learning to keep things simple!

"Our life is frittered away by detail, ... Simplify, Simplify." - Henry Thoreau

I keep a To-Do list handy at all times.  Years ago I was taught the Franklin method of time management.  In this time management scheme you have A gals, B Goals and C Goals.  At anyone time it is suggested that you have no more than 5 high priority A goals, and as you finish a high priority goal, you move another one up.  So you always have 5 A priority tasks to be completed.  And you are always doing one chore after another.

The drawback to this time management method, for me at least, was at the end of the day, after you completed many of your chores, you still don't feel that you have made much of a dent in the list, because there are still 5 A priority tasks waiting to be completed.

But then it dawned on me the really awesome thing about this style of time management, you can work it from both ends.  You see, if months pass and you have certain C level tasks that still haven't been accomplished, how important are they really?  Maybe they are things that really don't need doing, so maybe it is best ju7st to scratch them off the list, since it seems you will never get to them anyways!

So you just decide that if the task is so unimportant that you will always do something else first, then maybe you should find someone else top do this for you, or just get real with yourself and admit you aren't about to do the task, and scratch it off the list!  Why carry around dead weight, simplify, simplify!