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Someone stopped by my office during the 12:30 block to discuss a research problem, which shifted the length of my 1:30 task block. The columns growing to the right side are rewrites that I made throughout the day as my plan changed. On many days, I like to dive right into a deep task for an hour or so before taking the time to make a plan for the rest of the day.

This doesn’t mean that I started work at 10:30. Notice, this plan doesn’t start until 10:30. In response to these queries, I thought it might be useful to show you a few of my actual daily plans from recent days during this past month… Though the basic idea behind daily planning is simple - block out the hours of the day and assign work to these blocks - many readers ask me good questions about the details of its implementation. The key, instead, is to make sure that I am intentional about what I do with my time, and don’t allow myself to drift along in a haze of reactive, inbox-driven busyness tempered with mindless surfing. Like most people, my schedule often shifts as the day unfolds. My goal, of course, is not to make a rigid plan I must follow no matter what. To this end, each morning I block out the hours of my work day in one of my trusted Black n’ Red notebooks (see above), and assign specific efforts to these blocks. Grr.Longtime Study Hacks readers know I’m a proponent of planning in advance how you’re going to spend your time. They’re part of the eBay empire too, which is growing increasingly irritating because of the hucksters on the service creating an environment of “us versus them” in their form-letter driven customer crap service, which seems to emphasize “volume of form replies sent” than “volume of problems READ and resolved.” I personally haven’t had problems with eBay, but have some friends that are going through hell just trying to straighten out their accounts. The bad press I’ve heard about it revolve around awful customer service and small charity organizations using it getting locked out of their own funds. Lynn: I’m sure I’ll accept PayPal…there’s no getting around it. It may be that I do all the fulfillment out of my house at first so I can make sure it all looks good. Doing inserts in the box too (the description) I think would be important too. Maybe doing a run of awesome stickers would be good for that on the outside (I love stickers, too). Randell: Thanks for the ideas! I haven’t thought about custom printing the boxes. It will likely be a few weeks before people start getting pads, but I want to get ’em out as soon as possible!

#David serah emergent task planner plus#

Then I will send an email to everyone stating what the final costs will be, plus whatever shipping ends up being, and start accepting real orders. After I close pre-orders, I will have an accurate count of how many pads I can print, and can get final pricing. Your pre-order is NOT a real order, but an indication of your interest.

If I have to fill out a customs form every time I ship something overseas, then that makes it less likely. I was not thinking of taking international orders right now, but please do indicate your interest anyway. You mail email me via the contact form, or leave a comment with your email address stating: All pre-orders will get an email confirming their order amount and requesting address information. I still don’t have final cost numbers yet, but I’ll post them as soon as they’re ready. You can add your pre-order to the original post, or revise your existing one if the idea of a pad without the pre-printed year isn’t what you want. And then there’s the whole packaging challenge too…how can I make the package cool without adding a lot of expense? I still have to get over to the post office and rent a post office box, and also ask them about bulk shipping at media rates (which I should qualify for). I have a paypal account, of course, but I’m not too keen on using them because of all the bad press I hear about them.

I’m imagining this might take me a while to work out, though thanks to other readers I am looking at Shopify and Shipwire as possibilities for ecommerce and fulfillment.

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We have well-over 100 pad orders, so now I have to worry about how to accept money and fulfillment. Not quite as pretty, but still pretty useful :-) The profits from this run will go into figuring out how to handle customization of the year in future products right now, it makes sense to just make this one a fill-in-the-blank. There are a lot of dependencies that I’m just starting to learn about, so I figured it would be safer to supply forms that would be useful for the next year. The reason that finally pushed me over was that I’m not actually sure how long it’s going to take to print and ship out all these forms. I’ve decided to get rid of the year, though I like it, and have replaced it with a fill-in area for the date.