Working Hard, Hardly Working - Part 2

Here are the notes I made from this chapter:  

Electric calendar x paper calendar on a Sunday night = organised heaven.

To Do Table rather than a To Do List

Quick Ticks | Tasks | Projects 

Batch these tasks together and time block them into your daily plan.  

Decide what to do before the working day starts using the Eisenhower Method. 

Urgent & Important - DO NOW! 

Not Urgent & Important - Schedule 

Not Important but Urgent - Delegate 

Neither - forget it! 

Productivity tips I think will help me:  

Take breaks 

Tidy workspace

2 minute rule - just do it now if appropriate 

Commit to a task, don't multitask 

Do the To Do Table the night before/before work starts

Rituals are concious decisions to do something 

Habits are subconcious actions 

Combined they make our ROUTINE.  

I will commit to doing the following steps BEFORE I start my working day:  

I will put my to dos into the Eisenhower Method table to focus on what needs doing TODAY. 

Then changing my overwhelming to do list into a to do table so I can batch today's tasks.  

I will time block the tasks in my calendar. 

I will use the Pomodoro technique & keep my phone off my desk.