Processing: Getting “In” to Empty

Another requirement of effective Time Management is the realization that you cannot (and should try to) do everything at once. What you should do, however, is have control over all of your "In" boxes, (physical and virtual):

Getting “In” to empty doesn’t mean actually doing all the actions and projects you have collected

It just means:

1. Identifying each item
2. Deciding what it is
3. What it means
4. What you are going to do with it

Once you have done that, you have control, and in effective time management, control is what it is all about.