Completing Your Large Tasks - 4 tried and true methods to Getting Things Done Well and on Time
Posted by Jesslyn Reinecke on November 13th, 2008 filed in Time Management, Productivity, Time Wasters, Goal SettingWhenever you have to achieve a superior level of work, you could feel a need to take on the trouble and execute it yourself. The following examples briefly outline a couple of of the more popular time management techniques and organizing tips applied by people who do it all by themselves.
1. Analyze any project or task and break it up into its secondary parts. By breaking them into manipulable chunks, each of which doesn’t seem so intimidating, you can commence to feel a sense that you are capable of coping with each segment, whereas the whole may have seemed too intimidating. Do it yourself so you really understand what each segment involves.
2. Set yourself manageable goals. Goal setting is always crucial - for example, complete the first leg of the project by a certain time. If you thump the time, then the excess time left over becomes a payoff - and this will be guilt exempt; so much more gratifying!
3. Reward yourself. Only too often, the rewards are provided before the job is done. Having a cup of tea, reading through the newspaper, ceasing for lunch. These rewards only add to the holdup, and inescapable guilt and encourage more delay. By being true to yourself that you can have a reward only after you have a accomplished a down-to-earth amount of work can it become a worthy maneuver. Who else would pay you before you had accomplished anything to merit it?
4. Be honest with yourself. You know if you are detaining and disrupting your work flow with unneeded and frequent tasks. Once you admit that what you are doing, you will find that applying the former tips becomes much more comfortable.
None of these tips are very hard, and all are tried and true. Those folks who always appear to get the job done have discovered to incorporate them into the way they work as naturally as your regular trips to the water tank, and subsequent trips to the toilet.
Attempt it next time you have a small job to do - write down the job, the objective and the reward, and adhere to it. You can start out by using this formula for small tasks and plans. And once you have executed these a couple of times, it will become increasingly natural to implement them to the larger challenges you’ll face.
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Shafir Ahmad is the author of “The Experts Guide to Managing Your Time”.
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August 27th, 2009 at 5:58 pm
A very well written article. It is amazing what you can actually achieve if you set yourself real goals.
There is a rather useful tool called Qlockwork that can help with time management on your PC. I really find it useful - but I did write it so I may well be biased there.