Anti-Procrastination Month ‘08: Day 7
October 9th, 2008 by Cristina Favreau
Today’s contributors share with us the procrastination-beating benefits of the almighty list.
One simple rule for me: If it’s not a constrained task and it takes just a short time to complete it now, reduce your own stress level by completing it now in the white space you have between other big things.
The fine print behind that is to keep one consolidated task list close at hand where you can retrieve it (I’m agnostic on what tool you use for this as long as it’s not cumbersome to maintain), and be diligent about marking out time in the day to take 5 minutes and adjust it for priorities, or better still, to mark things as completed. The minute you can do that, you’ll find your view of either the project or the assignments isn’t quite as burdensome as you originally thought. — Andrew Buck, PMP
I am extremely strict with myself, I generally DO NOT do anythign “fun” – check/ respond to personal e-mails, make personal phone calls etc until EVERYTHING on my “to do” list for that day has been actioned/ ticked off.
It makes you really focus on getting your chores done quickly and efficiently so that you can then spend some time on somethign whcih you really want to do. — Bernadette Chandrasegaram
