Quote Originally Posted by ArcCaster View Post
Covey suggests planning by the week -- my problem with his approach was lack of next actions. GTD supplies those missing actions (yeah!) but now that I have them, I am concluding that the scope ( a week ) is too broad.

I want to narrow my focus to a day -- better yet, narrow it to about 5 hours a day of prime working time. I want to know 12 hours in advance the best use for those 5 hours.

Yet, I still want the flexibility of the week's list of next action items.
I too have to agree with you. It is frustrating to me to just look at a context list or project list without having decided in advance what should be focused on. I believe I need to schedule my day more precisely and want to fine-tune the manner in which I do that. I will try your method of planning out the groups of NAs (context lists, projects or categories) the day before and then reviewing it in the morning again. Prior to this I created such a focus list in the morning. I crossed off the items - at least most of them, but found that I was not using my time wisely enough.

One of my goals for 2008 is "to just do it, don't think about it too much." These are instrumental: Planning in advance - I have that down pat, hopefully; my horizons of focus - I have been working on that with the book, other tools, and the GTD cards; and now better time management through better scheduling.