Another advice for people with messy rooms is “make a base first.” I appreciate this advice. Since it takes much time to tidy up the whole room, you partition the area first and make only one place tidy. The word “base” means a settled area. By acquiring the base, you feel accomplishment. By having the base, your daily work becomes more efficient. The efficiency brings you a surplus time that you can use to maintain and improve your base. You can gradually improve the base and enlarge it. (*5)
By using an analogy of tiding up and task management, we can convert the advice to make a base into another advice for tasks. It takes much time to organize everything you care. So you need to partition the area first. What area is important for your daily work? It is the area “to do today.” Let’s partition your tasks whether it is to do today or not. Concentrate on organizing the base: things to do today. (*6)
Footnotes:
- *5 This story is similar to the expanded reproduction strategy in chapter 7.#todo link
- *6 This is an example of making the goal closer in (1.2.2.2) Make the goal closer - the effect of tutorial. Also, the mapping from the context of tiding up the room to the context of task management is an example of the analogy, in chapter 6.#todo link