In order to deal effectively with all of the to-do activities and surprises that is on your mind (and not yet on paper), you must first identify and collect all those things that are "ringing your bell" in some way, and then plan how to handle them. That may seem like a simple thing to do, but in practice most people don't know how to do it in a consistent way. We then bring you “The Basic Requirements for Managing Commitments”

Managing commitments well requires the implementation of some basic activities and behaviors:

1. First of all, if it's on your mind, your mind isn't clear. Anything you consider unfinished in anyway must be captured in a trusted system outside your mind, or what I call a collection bucket, that you know you'll come back to regularly and sort through.

2. Second, you must clarify exactly what your commitment is and decide what you have to do, if anything, to make progress toward fulfilling it.

3. Third, once you've decided on all the actions you need to take, you must keep reminders of them organized in a system you review regularly.


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