Prioritization
It's not about getting more done (quantity of work). It's about getting the right things done (quality of work).
You're always going to have more work to do than you have time to do it. That's why you need to know what the "critical path" to your goal is and stick to it.
Start with choosing what you're not going to get done.
Mono Task
In the last 10 years this skill has become as close to extention as Dodo birds in the modern american work force.
Work on one task and only one task until it’s done to the best of your ablity. Notifications off, jumping around off, checking emails off.
One thing. Only one thing. Until it’s done. Then one next thing.
But…
- If you’ve got several things all of which require jump tasks chunck them together and do that at one.
IE you need to live chat with Amazon support, live chat with a Google Ads tech support answer your emails and call the trash company to get a new trashcan (recent example from this week). Since I already know my attention is going to be shttered I’m just going to do all of the atention shattering work at once. An probaly at the end of the workday when my brain is already fried.
Consistancy Vs. Explosive Effort
- Federal Goverment just churns away
- Drip / Drip
- Build a process and system and stick to it hell or high water for 25% of the day. Then resond to chaiso the other 75%
The Power Of a Checklist
- Narrow Checklist that you can’t complicate and dive levels into. Flat.