Managing Your Commitments

Managing Your Commitments is a vital first step in time management:

1. First, if it’s on your mind, your mind isn’t clear
2. Anything you consider unfinished must be captured in a trusted system outside your mind:
   –Outlook email inbox
   –Physical in-basket
   –Voice recorder
3. You should have as few “collection buckets” as are adequate (and as many as are necessary)

You should not try to "keep things in your head". I am sure you can remember several instances when that did not work). Free up your mind for the task at hand; don't clutter it with "I have to be sure to remember to...".