http://jackcheng.com/time-on-your-side
Jack Cheng writes an excellent article on how to evaluate the time necessary to complete a task, thus taking the “mass worry” out of managing both your projects and your time.
We all have nagging to-dos—the ones we put off for weeks or months (or even years). When we finally get around to taking action, we realize that we spent more time dreading them or worrying about them than it actually took to do them.
For the past couple months, I’ve been attaching a time estimate to the end of each item on my to-do list. This simple trick has completely changed how I deal with the things on my plate, especially the tasks I’d normally keep putting off. I call it time-tagging:
