Like I said yesterday, T.G.I.F.
Just like most weeks, this week was another intense one keeping everything moving forward. Let’s wrap up the week, and series, and talk about Friday:
- Had conference call right out of the shoot. While waiting for it to start, banged through the DCL. Being that I keep my inbox (well, inboxes, see my other post), at zero everyday, this was a breeze.
- Transitioned to my Next Action list (Projects Widget), and managed to hit about five different projects. Again, I date things for follow-up, so three different projects popped up for follow-up, and I got them all done.
- The rest of the day consisted of work on one project. I was able to get that one wrapped up; a nice way to end the week.
So, all in all, I think this was a relatively good week. I helped a lot of people move forward on their projects. Also, I moved forward on * all * of my projects (even if it was a quick glance during the Weekly Review to assure they have follow-up dates on them so they will pop up in the Projects Widget) even with all the interruptions.
What were the lessons learned from this week?
- Quick Capture Interruptions.
- As I think I commented about this week, interruptions are the real killer. You have to capture them and keep your focus. I didn’t do as well in this area as I like and will need to focus on that more next week.
- Break the addiction to email, IM and Twitter.
- These are all major sources of interruptions.
- Block out more time, especially when you have projects that require big chunks of un-interrupted time.
- This, along with corralling interruptions, will be my goals for next week.
That wraps up this series for this week. On the onset of this series, I had said that I had two goals for it:
1) To give you some ideas / tips / tricks on managing multiple projects.
2) For me to track what I’m up to – helping me see progress as well as possibly see where I can improve.
I hope this series helped you out; it did me and I have some great goals for next week to help boost productivity even further. Make it a great, relaxing weekend!
Tags: GTD, Personal Productivity, Relaxed Productivity, Stress
