A Couple Of Good Personal Productivity Books [Tech Rest]
I recently read a couple of books by Julie Morgenstern. The two books were Never Check E-Mail In the Morning: And Other Unexpected Strategies for Making Your Work Life Work
I was drawn in by the catchy title "Never Check E-mail in the Morning". However, I definitely gained some insights from Julie.
Tie everything you do to a why. For instance, the reason you don’t check email in the morning is to give yourself some uninterrupted time. And you need uninterrupted time to do well on your job. And you need to do well on your job to provide for the family you love. And you provide for the family you love so that you can have the feeling of knowing you are doing part of what you were put on this earth to do. She also applies this idea to fitness. You work on so you can have the energy to do the things that are important to you.
Understand that time and energy are finite quantities. She compares your planner to your checkbook. You only have so much money to spend. In the same vain, you only have so much time and energy to give on any given day.
Associate time estimates with your tasks. I have heard this idea before but with her encouragement I am starting to do it. I look at my task list in the morning and drag items to my calendar. Then I expand the items to fill the time I think they will take. Also, I took a task I was procrastinating and did time estimates for each step. When I saw the task was not going to take all that long, I began to work on it.
Her books have some great ideas in them. Worth checking out.
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Original post here: Craig Huggart
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