In the 1970’s Art Fry inadvertently made the post-it note as a bookmark for his church hymnal. He didn’t want to ruin the page, and the 3M glue was perfect.
The idea was kicked along, until the Post-It Note was finally launched to the market in ’79.
The little sticky notes are great for all sorts of planning and scheduling tasks, and, they have another key upside – a size constraint.
Whatever it is that you want, can you spell it out on a post-it note?
Can you state your need, desire or position in 4-8 words?
One or two sentences?
A lot of times we can’t. We run out of space and need more notes, or bigger paper, for more sentences, more feelings, and more explanations.
Or, maybe we just need to get clearer on the idea.
(I wrote about some other Post-It note “rules” here)
