Reduce Your Workload in One Minute I've got so much to do! What do you do?? Chop some wood! This little tip to cutting down that dense forest of a workload is based on the idea that once you get started, you're almost finished.
1. List out everything you have to do today (or this week etc).
2. Now, like juiced-up bald ostrich going down that list:
Spend one minute tackling each task.
What happens is once you've begun the task, it removes that notion of it being so difficult or distant. Now, it's so much easier to keep going.
The final tip is the clincher, though. Don't just list everything willy nilly. Begin with the most important, MUST DO, items and then onto the not needed immediately todo's.
Declutter your career Just as you occasionally need to clean out a closet, you may also need to "clean out" your career to enable a focused and productive mindset, and to create expectations for advancement. The article goes into detail about how to handle distractions, conflicts, email overload, and distracting colleagues so you can accelerate your career. Just as it can be helpful to clear out closets at home every so often, it's a good idea to declutter your career periodically. By removing the stuff that gets in the way, you can free up time, brain power and energy, enabling you to enjoy work more and improve your performance."
Distractions. Identify tasks that you can cast off. "Decluttering has everything to do with ensuring that the actions you do on a daily basis are going to help your No. 1 priority."
Conflicts. Avoiding a difficult colleague or project can detract from your at-work effectiveness.
Email overload. A cluttered inbox can give the impression that you have more to do than you actually do.
Chatterboxes. Chit-chat has its place at work, but excessive socializing can be a drain when you're trying to get things done. To politely escape from a colleague who tends to blab, say you have a deadline to meet, and offer to get together at another time, such as during your lunch break.
I think I posted this one before, but just in case:
Efficient Reading We've covered one method of increasing your book intake with How To Read Fast in November. What about How To Read and Digest A Book and digesting a book properly while learning how to Speed Read. This little gem comes from Matt's Idea Blog almost a year ago and helps me get through educational reading, particularly when I want to read a lot of books in a short time.Naturally, because my goal is to learn, the reading involves work. But the question is: How can one read efficiently, capture relevant ideas in a usable way, and keep the process sustainable and enjoyable? The rest of my post summarizes the best solutions I've found, but the most useful technique comes from Jason Womack, and synthesizes nicely the most common ideas. In a nutshell, he says he reads the book four times:
1. Table of contents, glossary, index.
2. Anything in bold, titles, and subtitles.
3. First line of every paragraph.
4. Entire book
It's a simple process. The first 3 steps should take around ten minutes [not much extra, hey?] and prepares your brain to take in the information. Because you've, essentially, already read the book three times, when you do finally read it in it's entirety the information becomes much easier to sink in.
Warning: Does not work for fiction.
How To Read A Lot Of Books In A Short Time - [MattsIdeaBlog]
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Thanks for the link!
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