Too Many Interests — Too Little Focus

How do you manage tasks when every item has equal importance and none have any priority?

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The Ivy Lee method requires you to decide on your tasks the night before, list them in order of priority, and do the most important item first. Some systems are based on urgency vs. importance, while other methods require you to categorize your tasks based on high or low effort vs. high or low value.

Three reasons why the planning and productivity systems I’ve seen don’t appeal to me:

• I don’t want to rewrite the tasks on every new page; it feels like a punishment for not completing them.
• I can’t decide which tasks are more valuable, and none of them have a deadline.
• I don’t know which category my tasks fit into with any of the systems.

I have a wide variety of interests and leftover projects that have lingered on my lists for years. I’ve come to accept that I may never get around to some items (learning Latin) or return to others I dabbled in years or decades ago (studying logic or playing piano).

For the past few weeks, I’ve only used my bullet journal to document my spiritual, writing, and chess activities. I stopped using it…