Comments on: Knowing When To Quit

By: leigh

leigh — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 21:22:31 +0000

It’s really an awesome idea..and I will surely start doing the same as soon as possible.

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 20:32:20 +0000

I have this rule, No new till I finish two!

By: David C. Buchan

David C. Buchan — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 03:19:21 +0000

The moment of truth arrived when I thought to myself, “Great idea, but I can’t start that. I have too much to do!”.

Rubbish bin and delete key at the ready.

By: CareerNiche

CareerNiche — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 15:25:37 +0000

Managing to-do lists

I maintain many to-do lists. Some might call this overdoing it, but it really helps me. I have one to-do list for every area of my life- reading, crafting, writing, personal website, professional web site. Each area’s to-do list is

By: Max Leibman

Max Leibman — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 04:58:00 +0000

Great post. This is an awesome blog!

Priorities are key. There’s more than enough time for what really matters, but not enough time for everything.

I find its useful–and guilt reducing–to spend some time thinking about values and long-range goals. Makes it easier–and less stressful–to drop things when you can see them with a bigger perspective

By: jethro.

jethro. — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 16:49:01 +0000

Keith, this is a terrific post. It calls to mind two of the aspects of GTD that I’ve found most useful:

1) EVERYTHING on your to-do list is a commitment to someone, whether to you or to others, and it needs to be treated as such.

2) The Someday/Maybe file is the perfect spot for those actions or projects that may be good ideas, but you simply can’t commit to them right now.

By: sebastien

sebastien — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 06:34:55 +0000

it’s time for me to decide what i really need to acomplish and this article is been great for me. Tomorow , well later today I’ll start figuring out my priorities and start working on them.

By: Brad

Brad — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 22:32:58 +0000

I do this every so often with my RSS subscriptions, but I never thought to prioritize and selectively throw out current projects. Thanks for the great idea!

By: Job Secrets Revealed weblog

Job Secrets Revealed weblog — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 08:49:51 +0000

Knowing *when* to quit is just as hard as knowing *how*

Continuing on from “How to resign” a few days ago and from The Reason Why You’re Here about 3 weeks ago, we present a great rundown on “Knowing When To Quit” by D. Keith Robinson, a great primer on organizing and preparin…

By: Alexandre Quessy

Alexandre Quessy — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 03:54:37 +0000

Thanks for the good ideas ! I was gonna do such an exercise, but now, I now how is gonna look the table I am gonna draw. I need to see all my processes and to kill some of them… :-)