How To Clear Your Backlogs.

Backlogs… A rather bigger part of life that we probably wish wasn’t. Did you know that there are three types of backlog, two of which you don’t really need to worry too much about? Let me explain.

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Script | 344

Hello, and welcome to episode 344 of the Your Time, Your Way Podcast. A podcast to answer all your questions about productivity, time management, self-development and goal planning. My name is Carl Pullein, and I am your host of this show.

Let’s be honest: somewhere in our carefully organised lives, backlogs will build. It could be email, the ever-increasing list of house repairs, or the daily admin life generates. 

With everything going on in our lives, it would be easy to believe that finding the time to stop these backlogs from growing is impossible. 

Yet, when you understand the three types of backlogs, you can develop a process that stops the backlog from growing. 

The three types are the growing backlog, the stalled backlog and the shrinking one. 

You don’t need to worry about the shrinking backlog. It’s doing what you want it to do—shrinking. That could be getting your receipts together in preparation for doing your taxes. You’re gathering and sorting them, so the backlog is shrinking. This generally happens when the tax submission season is almost upon us. 

The stalled backlog is also a little less urgent. It’s not growing, but you need to watch it carefully because this kind of backlog can start snowballing—house or car repairs, for example, often do this. 

The most dangerous backlog is the growing one. This often happens with email and admin tasks and can occur when you try to expand your business too fast without adding resources. 

Before we go any further, let me first hand you over to the Mystery Podcast Voice for this week’s question.

This week’s question comes from Janice. Janice asks, hi Carl, I’m trying to get my life organised but don’t have time because I have so many things to do. My email’s a mess, and every weekend, I spend all day cleaning up my home. How do you get on top of things when you are far behind?

Hi Janine, thank you for sending in your question. 

This is a tough one. It can feel like we are stuck between wanting to get ourselves organised and realising that we have such a big backlog of stuf