Sterling Rose Design Blog

Yesterday, I tried an experiment in time management. I am always working on at least a dozen projects (professional and personal) at a time, and was feeling as though a) I wasn’t getting enough done, b) I was distracted even while working by all of the things I hadn’t finished yet, and c) time just kept getting away from me. So I decided to try a little timeboxing, in conjunction with #dailygoals.

The basic concept was this: Via the #dailgoals Twitter hashtag, I define what projects I want to work on that day. I stayed away from saying I wanted to complete anything but the most insular of tasks (placing an order, for example) and left everything else open-ended. Then, I whipped out my handy-dandy timer application, Apimac timer (I’m sure a kitchen egg timer would work just as ...