Checklists for Personal Productivity
Checklists are quite well-known. However, they are taken as very special purpose tools that only pilots and surgeons use, or something that organizations lay them down for their employees. But checklists play great role even in personal productivity.
We should make checklist for anything and everything in our life that we might think would be required to be repeated. It is also a good idea to create a checklist while we are actually doing it so that we save extra step of recollection and writing it later.
First benefit is that quality of your next output is assured. Second benefit is that your mind is not trying to remember this new knowledge, the next moment you capture it in a checklist and so is set free to attend to more creative things. As you improve your process with experience, your checklist also gets enriched. Basically, you get a system in place that allows you to not to repeat a mistake.
For example, I started building & using a checklist for preparation of my webinars. Here it is -
- Remind family about the time and duration of the session.
- Recheck information about the attendees.
- Ensure that the virtual meeting link in provided
- Check WIFI speed
- Charge Bluetooth headset, Cellphone
- Make a quick dry run of the PPT
- Close unnecessary apps
- Extend display to second monitor
- Grooming
- Wipe spectacles
- Get water to drink
- Get Notebook and pen
Be conscious about making a checklist, next time when you start a new process. And don’t forget to keep all checklists in one place which is easy to access.
Originally published at http://ravindrakondekar.com.
