Are your Follow-Ups Falling Through The Cracks?
Author: Len Merson
Date: November 24, 2009
Calendaring your Pendings*
*Waiting for someone to get back to me; Awaiting a deadline to occur; Awaiting an event to take place
Picture this – you have just sent me an e-mail requesting something of me that you require. Now this is work for me to do (what we refer to as a ‘Turtle’), and what is it for you? If you said “Pending”, you got it.
Your having hit the ‘Send’ button (and being a diligent follower of the Living Chaos Free Program), you immediately went to your ‘Sent’ file and, lo and behold, there at the top of your ‘Sent’ file (actually, according to our program, this should be the ONLY item in your ‘Sent’ file), is the e-mail requesting information from me.
Now for those of you using Outlook (this will also work with many other systems), you now drag this e-mail down to your ‘Calendar’ bar, let go, and voila, the body of your e-mail appears in your calendar for the day.
Why is this so terrific? Because…ALL PENDINGS HAVE TO BE CALENDARED. Now all that you need to do is the following:
- Change the date from today’s date (unless today is actually the day you intend to follow-up with me).
- Log the of time of day you wish to contact me.
- On ‘Subject’ you log: (PE) Len re: Acme Freight proposal (The symbol ‘PE’ denotes the location being in your E-mail’s ‘Pending’ file.)
- Lastly, now drag the e-mail sitting in your ‘Sent’ file into your ‘PENDING’ (PE) file.
Congratulations, as you now have…
“THE PLEASURE TO FORGET”
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