I guess the thing that makes both of these work is the periodic reprioritisations + limiting the number of tasks to manage
edit: also not allocating time for a task to be done: tasks take as long as they need to, there's no "I will have updated my IRA investment preferences by 2017-03-14" because you'll miss those dates and then train yourself not to be worried about them (and ignore them), OR have an introspective fugue on where exactly you went wrong as a person who can't even complete a simple task that other people could do in 5 minutes what is wrong with you
* have occasional roadmap meetings with decision-makers from the department/greater org
* * discuss growth target/expectations for 1-2 years out
* assuming the growth, identify what will prevent us from hitting it
* * systems+processes that can't scale
* * long-term migration plans
* use these as long-term goals
* every quarter, look at the goals and identify something we can achieve in 3 months to get closer
* * write it down with deliverables
* * work out who is available to do the work
* do sprints/agile/etc. until the end of quarter
* review
Home:
* come up with the 1-2 year goals
* * remember them (or write them down)
* make Trello tickets in a Some Day list for things you can do right now that get you closer to your goals
* * rank them by importance/deadline (do this whenever you feel like it)
* take one from the top and put them into a Today list
* do them
* * if something stops you, put them in a Waiting… list with a deadline & indication of who you're waiting on
* * * e.g. Open a Stock Trading Account [waiting for response] [due 3 weeks] "sent off the paperwork to trader & waiting for account details"
* move them to a Done in 2017-03 list when they're done
* * archive the list at the end of the period