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One way to represent such recurrent tasks is the sequesterting approach, described on pages 158-159 of the Personal Kanban book. The tasks are sequestered in a separate space on your whiteboard. This space looks like a table and each item is given one row. For each item, you have: description, the recurrence pattern (daily, weekly), the date of the last ...

Kanban came initially from the Toyota production model and then was adapted for knowledge work. So these application are on the business level where tasks are expected to be completed and "failure" to complete a task is not part of the model. Personal Kanban is newer - there's been one book on the subject, and I think it's fair to say that since it's an ...

It seems like you need to break down those "too big to chew on in one bite" tasks into smaller pieces and go through those instead of one huge chunk of task. One-off huge tasks not only look and feel daunting, they are also harder to gauge progress and can often feel like you haven't done much. If you are using source control, another benefit of smaller ...

It's always a tough one - I use a lot of physical things in my work - so I have to remember to switch off my monitors before I leave the office - so when I plug them in in the morning I thread the plug though the strap on my bag - so I can't leave with out unpluging. With reguards to the taking the day of - I would have two possibilities - when you put ...

You might also want to consider what you are doing. Tonianne and I have a very involved electronic board that we use to keep track of what we're doing as a company - but we also often have little personal boards that are more tactical. So, here on my desk there's a few stickies to the left of my computer that are little personal things I need to get done ...

I also use an electronic kanban board. It gives far more opportunities to collaborate with distributed team members as well as to analyze the workflow that a traditional whiteboard. My favorite is Kanban Tool. It is simple to use and customize.

If you are doing this with post-its on the wall, then you could say that each postit with "music" written on it is an 1 hour practice time on specific day. If you have 3 hours daily I would suggest to divide it into smaller parts, especially if it happens that you don't finish it often. Let say you need to practice 3 hours every day and you did 2 hours on ...