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MY 3 STEP PROCESS
STEP 1
I learned this very early on in my corporate career. At 4:45pm, if you leave at 5:00pm, make a list of things that you want to do tomorrow. This way when you walk into work, you have a list in front of you. How many times have you crawled into work in the morning and had no idea what to do first?
STEP 2
On that list of things to do, put only ONE task on the list. I know it's seems like a lazy goal, but try it. It works. Obviously, don't put on the list a simple task like "Call John", put something like "Finish the Blah Blah Report". (Sadly, if you complete your one task every day, you will be the best employee at work!)
The reasoning behind this single item list is that you will be interupted by phone calls, meetings, etc... so there will be more work for you to do that you didn't plan for. However, every time you finished doing whatever the distraction was, you will go back to that ONE task. If you go back to a list of 6 tasks, you probably won't continue the one you just left off on and you'd start another one. The end result is that you don't finish anything on your list.
STEP 3
To the best of your ability while doing your ONE task. Don't answer emails, phone calls, text messages. Try to sit and work on it a solid 30 minutes or 1 hour without a voluntary interuption. A voluntary interuption is one that you choose to interupt you. Obviously, if someone walks into your office you must talk to the person, if someone calls twice within 30 minutes I'd answer the second time.
STEP 1
I learned this very early on in my corporate career. At 4:45pm, if you leave at 5:00pm, make a list of things that you want to do tomorrow. This way when you walk into work, you have a list in front of you. How many times have you crawled into work in the morning and had no idea what to do first?
STEP 2
On that list of things to do, put only ONE task on the list. I know it's seems like a lazy goal, but try it. It works. Obviously, don't put on the list a simple task like "Call John", put something like "Finish the Blah Blah Report". (Sadly, if you complete your one task every day, you will be the best employee at work!)
The reasoning behind this single item list is that you will be interupted by phone calls, meetings, etc... so there will be more work for you to do that you didn't plan for. However, every time you finished doing whatever the distraction was, you will go back to that ONE task. If you go back to a list of 6 tasks, you probably won't continue the one you just left off on and you'd start another one. The end result is that you don't finish anything on your list.
STEP 3
To the best of your ability while doing your ONE task. Don't answer emails, phone calls, text messages. Try to sit and work on it a solid 30 minutes or 1 hour without a voluntary interuption. A voluntary interuption is one that you choose to interupt you. Obviously, if someone walks into your office you must talk to the person, if someone calls twice within 30 minutes I'd answer the second time.
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