Comments on: Overcommitted? How To Renegotiate Your To-do List

By: Elaine Murphy

Elaine Murphy — Mon, 28 May 2018 22:31:10 +0000

When I began treating my manager as a manager, I was able to more easily manage my time. 🙂 My response more frequently became, ‘I have X, Y, and Z on my calendar for today. Did you want me to move one of these to tomorrow’s schedule?’ For the ad hoc requests of peers, I was able to say, ‘when do you need that by? I’m not sure I can get to that today.’

By: Nancy Mahoney

Nancy Mahoney — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 14:24:53 +0000

Very helpful article, especially the reminder to make lists rather than keep things in ones head, the tips for re-negotiating about tasks, and the idea of a “not now” folder.

By: James

James — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 13:18:45 +0000

This is a timely post for me. I have started to miss deadlines at work due to overcommitting. I have pushed myself too hard for too long. It came into focus for me yesterday when I got my monthly report from my fitness tracker and my average hours of sleep for the month was just over 4 hours. I was trying to figure out how to start to renegotiate deadlines and deligate more when I got the email for this post. Thank you for laying out these points in such a clear way so that I could quickly digest them. Now for me to take action on them. To start I am going to decline to work on a project I was offered so that I can focus on preparing for a difficult qualification exam I will be taking in early May. I have talented coworkers who can work on the project but they can’t study and take the exam for me.