- Plan your day in advance. That means you can get up and get started right away instead of frittering or wasting time. (Often writing a “to do list” is a useful idea.)
- Decide on your priorities, and do the most important things first.
- Also, do the hardest task first. Otherwise, they will niggle at you constantly and slowly drain away your energy.
- Avoid multi-tasking when you’re working on something important.
- However, it’s good to multitask when we’re doing menial, repetitive and boring tasks.
- Ditch requests and tasks that are unimportant, and a total waste of your time!
- Commit to NOT procrastinating. Ask a friend to keep you accountable.
- Be organised. This includes engaging in advanced planning; knowing what you need for the task; having everything you need close at hand; bundling similar tasks together; and working in a relatively tidy and clutter-free environment.
- Cut out distractions and avoid time wasters (social media, cell phones, highly social or demanding people etc)
- Know what your most productive time of day is and treat that as a sacrosanct period for working.
- Get into the habit of shutting off racing, distracting and negative thoughts. This is a crucial form of self-discipline.
- Break large tasks down into smaller sub-tasks – and set achievable deadlines for these.
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