Sometimes the workload reaches such proportions that a person feels cornered. When there is sorely lacking time and energy to cope with pressing tasks, it is time to review the list of current affairs.
Instruction manual
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Make a list of all the things you need to do this week. Critically review it and cross out those tasks that are not necessary. Next, you should highlight those issues whose solution can calmly be entrusted to some other person. Such delegation of duties will help you to unload and breathe a sigh of relief. Just remember to check the result later.
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Now that you have fewer tasks, and most importantly, you are sure that they are all relevant, it is important to organize the work process correctly. Think about what you can combine, do together, and much faster. Do not rush to get to work right away, act wisely. Perhaps familiar algorithms can be optimized.
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Do not rush to a new task without completing the previous work. So you get distracted from the case, and then you have to re-examine the process. Switching from one task to another and vice versa, you reduce your own efficiency. If you do not want your performance to suffer, do not try to do several things at once. As a result, it may take more time, and the quality will decrease.
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From the previous rules you can make one exception. If you have a new task, which will take no more than 2 minutes, do it immediately. So you save time on planning this small business and its inclusion in your schedule. Such tasks include, for example, a short telephone conversation, sending a fax or e-mail.
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To cope with a large, labor-intensive project, you do not need to spend a whole free day and gather your thoughts for a long time. Such an opportunity may never come, and the matter requires resolution. Better set aside a global challenge for 20 minutes each day. So you do not damage your usual schedule and do not abandon an important matter.
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Keep track of the deadlines by which you need to be in time with the performance of a task. Try to stick to your dates. Delay can be fraught with various undesirable consequences and the emergence of additional instructions. Therefore, you need to look at the list of tasks from time to time and move urgent ones to the top lines.
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The nasty things that hang over you can make you feel overwhelmed. Therefore, it is important to deal with them as quickly as possible. Each time, start the morning with a task for which you do not really have a soul. But then you can be proud of yourself all day and enjoy the feeling of freedom.