My last posts are mostly about dealing with workload. The reason is simple – last weeks at work are pretty hectic. Sleeping for 4 hours isn’t something very unusual these days.
Today I have another self-management tip. Leave less important things aside. If you lack time you should spend it neither on task switching nor on unimportant errands. That’s pretty obvious. Unfortunately we tend to forget about that.
And there’s another trap. We usually set unimportance level way too far. As a result we don’t have enough time to deal even with “important” tasks. The direction should be opposite. Start with the critical things and until they’re finished don’t touch anything else.
The rest should be delegated or forgotten.
Unfortunately for me it does mean significantly lower posting frequency on the blog, which I believe you’ve noticed. I hope to be back on track in a couple of weeks.
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Paul – you are a wise man. I run a growing PR firm and have to learn to just put things away that are not really important to client outcomes and the generation of revenue for our company. We use a SaaS project management software (http://www.vertabase.com) to manage the multiple projects. But even thought the system is great I have to get rid of the noise to get down to the work that is required. Keep at it Paul!