The Personal Kanban solution to this problem is to organize this mess of expectations with a personal task board. Benson suggests using three columns. The first is labeled options, and it’s where you arrange all your obligations into neat stacks of Post-it notes: one note per task. “Now we’ve taken that horrible mass of work and turned it into a very cognitively pleasing rectangle.” The second column is labeled doing. This is where you move the Post-its corresponding to the tasks that you’re actually working on right now.
