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Previous: 12 Secrets To Website Success by Janet Attard What's the first thing you do at work each day? Open your email? Listen to voice mail? Check on your website stats from the day before? A half-hour or an hour later, you dig out your to-do list (if you have one) and start on the first task. Then the phone rings, and, when you get off the call you see you only have about a half-hour before you have to leave for a meeting. So you check your email to see if there's anything you can take care of before you leave. When you get back, there are five messages on your desk and one of your employees walks into your office, asks if you have a minute, then before you can answer, starts telling you about a dispute he had with another worker when you were gone. By the end of the day you may have made a little progress on the task you started on in the morning, but it's not done. So that task, and a bunch of other tasks you didn't get finished go on tomorrow's To-Do list. Sound familiar? If so, here's a way to solve the problem. At the end of the week, make up a list of tasks you want to get finished next week. Keep the list short and reasonable. Determine the amount of time it will take to complete each task. Next, give yourself a start time and deadline for each task, being sure to schedule enough time to work on each one. At the scheduled time, shut the door to your office, hold your calls, and don't open email. Instead, focus on the scheduled task and work to get it done by the deadline you set. Follow this routine for a month or two and you'll be amazed at what you accomplish. Posted by Janet Attard on February 20, 2009 at 9:45 AM | Comments (3)Comments The thing to do, is to turn off email during the time you are working on a scheduled task so you don't lose focus on the task. In fact, the best way to handle email is to make that a scheduled task, too. Set aside one or two specific blocks of time during the day - one before lunch, for instance, and one before you leave for the day - to read and answer email. If you limit the time you devote to it, it keeps the email from interrupting other activities. Posted by: Janet Attard It was really useful. Small things really make big difference Keep up the good work Posted by: Victor on March 17, 2009 at 11:32 AM |
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but if I didn't read my email, I would miss great tips like this!
Posted by: steve on February 20, 2009 at 12:57 PM