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Managing multiple projects at a time is probably one of the more challenging requirements these day. I am personally struggling and found a lot to learn about procrastination and doing time management. The most influential sources for me were:

43Folders

Michael Mann presents very interesting tools and organization schemes essentially targeted towards ‘getting things done’.

The Now Habit – Neil Fiore

collects a number of rules against procrastination which work – at instant. I tried it!

The essentials are:

1. Try to prepare everything and aim for 30 minutes of quality work.
2. Never stop if you get one part or milestone done.

1. Never stop if you were confronted with a problem, take the five minutes to solve it.

With a modest amount of discipline, these rules are easily followed.

Getting Things Done – David Allen

A collection of stress free methods to organize your projects. The essentials here are:

• keep you Inbox empty
• if action is required, move every Email you cannot do in 2 minutes (or a small amount of time you chose) into an “ActionRequired” folder.
• if you can delegate it, do it at instant and move the Email to a “WaitingFor” folder.
• check your “ActionRequired” and “WaitingFor” folder if you feel it is necessary.

• put appointments and deadlines in your calendar, nothing else!

So may be this works for you, too ;-)