{"id":1243,"date":"2012-10-29T01:52:15","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T06:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=1243"},"modified":"2012-10-26T14:03:57","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T19:03:57","slug":"setting-limits-on-tasks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2012\/10\/setting-limits-on-tasks\/","title":{"rendered":"Setting Limits on Tasks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>Some tasks don&#8217;t deserve a lot of time to complete, despite how much time I would like to devote to them. I find items that limit my time on task.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some tasks are worth only so much time. Regardless of how much I like the task or how much I feel the tasks deserves (at the time), I need to cut them off. I don&#8217;t like this, but I find ways to live with it.<\/p>\n<p>For example, each morning I &#8220;view&#8221; the Internet. I put the results in a <a href=\"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/daybook\/currentdaybook.html\">daybook or notebook<\/a>. I use the Google RSS reader to look through over a hundred web sites. I would enjoy doing this for several hours, but that is too much.<\/p>\n<p>I limit my morning Internet to one hour. I use a parking space to enforce the limit. I view from a coffee shop in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.restontowncenter.com\/\">Reston Town Center<\/a>. There are parking garages available that have all-day parking. There are also parking spaces on the street that have a one-hour limit; I park in the limited spaces. No matter how interesting I find the day&#8217;s events, I have to finish the task and leave before my car is towed.<\/p>\n<p>The one-hour parking space limits my Internet viewing.<\/p>\n<p>Other time-limiting mechanisms include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Start a task at 11AM and end it by lunch<\/li>\n<li>Start a task an hour before a meeting and end it by the meeting<\/li>\n<li>Start a task while a meal is cooking and end it when the food is cooked<\/li>\n<li>Start a task a little while before my grandkids arrive at my house and end it &#8230; well you know<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Silly tricks? I concede that these are tricks. I am not ready to concede that they are silly as they seem to work and keep me moving on to the next task.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Some tasks don&#8217;t deserve a lot of time to complete, despite how much time I would like to devote to them. I find items that limit my time on task. Some tasks are worth only so much time. Regardless of how much I like the task or how much I feel the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,67],"tags":[135,187],"class_list":["post-1243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-work","tag-design","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1243"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1245,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions\/1245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}