More on time management

I came across these sentences on the time management wikipedia page and found them interesting enough to pass along.

Task lists aren't the key to productivity they're cracked up to be. An estimated 30% of listers spend more time managing their lists than they do completing what's on them. This could be caused by procrastination by prolonging the planning activity. This is akin to analysis paralysis. As with any activity, there's a point of diminishing returns.

Rigid adherence to task lists can create a "tyranny of the to-do list" that forces one to waste time on unimportant activities.

Pareto analysis is the idea that 80% of tasks can be completed in 20% of the disposable time. The remaining 20% of tasks will take up 80% of the time. This principle is used to sort tasks into two parts. According to this form of Pareto analysis it is recommended that tasks that fall into the first category be assigned a higher priority.

Using the Eisenhower Method, all tasks are evaluated using the criteria important/unimportant and urgent/not urgent and put in according quadrants. Tasks in unimportant/not urgent are dropped, tasks in important/urgent are done immediately and personally, tasks in unimportant/urgent are delegated, and tasks in important/not urgent get an end date and are done personally. This method is said to have been used by US President Dwight D. Eisenhower, and is outlined in a quote attributed to him: What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.