Time and Task Management: 5 of 6

Step 4: Work down your list, and stay only on the task you are on until you cannot do anything more with it.

Ugh. That’s my response to today’s blog post – ugh. What a difficult, terribly difficult, concept. I still struggle with this one constantly. You have created finally your task or to-do list and prioritized it, but if you can’t stick with it, it becomes meaningless. And by stick with it, I mean that excluding Critical tasks, you must stay on the course of what you prioritized.

For myself, there tends to be three common reasons I come off of my prioritized task list: (more…)

Time and Task Management: 4 of 6

Step 3: Prioritize

This is probably the step you’ve been really waiting for – how to prioritize. I wish I would have learned so much of this so long ago.

I can’t tell you specifically what to prioritize, but I’ll try and give you some guidelines on how I prioritize: (more…)

Time and Task Management: 3 of 6

Step 2: Schedule when you will do your prioritization, and time for it.

I know, you’re probably staring at this, trying to make sure you read it right. You did – you need to schedule when you are going to prioritize. I know this might seem counter-intuitive or useless, but if you don’t schedule your time out, you would be amazed at how easily your prioritization time will be lost.
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Time and Task Management: 1 of 6

I’m not going to pretend to be super-knowledgeable about managing time or tasks (known at RevBuilders as to-do’s, actually, but tasks is a little easier to write). However, I can honestly say I’ve learned a lot about the management of time and tasks, and I wish I would have known a lot of this when I first started working at RevBuilders (and even in my prior work at an automobile repair shop).
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