“I wish I had found beSlick sooner”

Before beSlick, work was very chaotic.

I had been through a few different approaches; for example, I had an exercise book where I wrote everything I needed to do. I carried this book with me everywhere – and was always scared of what would happen if I lost it!

Although it worked, one of the issues I had with it was that every time I opened it, I would see pages and pages of things I needed to do. At the end of the day, I only had lists of things I hadn’t completed, so I never got that feeling of satisfaction when I finished work.

I also noticed that I had begun writing things on post-it notes when I didn’t have my book. Then I had a different problem; my desk always ended up covered in them. I had to scan each to determine which were important.

The most significant change I have noticed is at a mental level.

I used to get depressed by all the tasks I had in my exercise book or post-it notes. The key reason was that I had this huge number of tasks and I was storing them in my head and worrying all the time about them all. But most of those tasks either were not something to worry about today or were not that important. beSlick has taken those away from me and just left me with the handful of achievable tasks I can do today.

Every morning I open the app on my phone and I see what I need to do that day,

and I can tick things off as I complete them. At the end of the day, I know I’ve done everything I had for that day. I no longer have those other tasks in the back of my mind. They used to pop up all the time, but now I don’t have to worry.
This has really helped with my stress management, and it’s also changed the way I operate.

I put a task in, I determine when I will do it by looking at spaces in my diary, and I don’t have to deal with the unrealistic expectations of having to deal with everything at the same time.

beSlick has also given me more discipline. For example, when I was in a meeting and I told someone I would send them something or do something, there was always a risk that I might forget.

Now I just add the task into beSlick using my phone and I know I won’t forget about it.

Absolutely.

I have recommended it to many of my group members and will continue to do so. On the surface, it might look like all I was doing was replacing post-it notes with an IT system. But because of the snooze function and putting a date on tasks, you end up organising things in categories and know that you only need to work on the things that come up on that day.

Then, it registered in my mind how much time I was spending going through my pending tasks and, what’s worse, constantly thinking about my to-dos. I don’t do that anymore. Things are not in the back of my head, and lists are not getting longer every time I look at them. I can organise my dates better, and I have the security that things will show up when I need to deal with them and not before.

I also think it’s imperative for leaders to delegate outcomes and decisions. With a task management tool, everyone can manage their own tasks.

This means that processes are being created in the background, and it’s the employees that own them.

I wish I had found beSlick sooner.