Comments on: Choose One Project http://www.passionforbusiness.com/blog/oneproject/ Practical tips for small biz owners Sun, 22 Jan 2012 23:19:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Candace http://www.passionforbusiness.com/blog/oneproject/comment-page-2/#comment-10183 Candace Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:07:28 +0000 http://www.passionforbusiness.com/blog/?p=975#comment-10183 Karyn, this is a great post... and I do have a problem with multi-tasking. This is an area I plan to work on in 2010... taking one project/task and getting it done, then more on to the next. It seems simple and stress free, but for many very difficult. Good luck in 2010! Karyn, this is a great post… and I do have a problem with multi-tasking. This is an area I plan to work on in 2010… taking one project/task and getting it done, then more on to the next. It seems simple and stress free, but for many very difficult.

Good luck in 2010!

]]> By: Karyn Greenstreet http://www.passionforbusiness.com/blog/oneproject/comment-page-1/#comment-9448 Karyn Greenstreet Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:51:23 +0000 http://www.passionforbusiness.com/blog/?p=975#comment-9448 Beth, I do something similar, but I keep all appointments and tasks in my Outlook calendar for a week at a time. (I sit at my computer most days, so that's the most logical place for me to put everything.) In addition, I have a To Do list in Word, divided as follows: 1. Tasks for this week 2. Tasks for next week 3. Deadlines for the next six months 4. To Delegate to Angee (my assistant) 5. Tasks for next month 6. Priority "B" tasks - tasks I want to remember, but are not as important as the ones I put in 1, 2 and 5. In this way, I have a document I can update any time I think of something that needs to get done. Every task gets assigned into just ONE category (1-6). Each Friday, I re-create my "Tasks for This Week" depending on priorities for the coming week. Beth, I do something similar, but I keep all appointments and tasks in my Outlook calendar for a week at a time. (I sit at my computer most days, so that’s the most logical place for me to put everything.)

In addition, I have a To Do list in Word, divided as follows:

1. Tasks for this week
2. Tasks for next week
3. Deadlines for the next six months
4. To Delegate to Angee (my assistant)
5. Tasks for next month
6. Priority “B” tasks – tasks I want to remember, but are not as important as the ones I put in 1, 2 and 5.

In this way, I have a document I can update any time I think of something that needs to get done. Every task gets assigned into just ONE category (1-6).

Each Friday, I re-create my “Tasks for This Week” depending on priorities for the coming week.

]]> By: Karyn Greenstreet http://www.passionforbusiness.com/blog/oneproject/comment-page-1/#comment-9446 Karyn Greenstreet Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:46:06 +0000 http://www.passionforbusiness.com/blog/?p=975#comment-9446 Margie, isn't that interesting? Employers want people to be multi-taskers, yet multi-tasking is essentially unproductive. I have a new mantra that I say to myself when I fall into the multi-tasking mode: "Focus, focus, focus..." :) Margie, isn’t that interesting? Employers want people to be multi-taskers, yet multi-tasking is essentially unproductive.

I have a new mantra that I say to myself when I fall into the multi-tasking mode: “Focus, focus, focus…”

:)

]]> By: Karyn Greenstreet http://www.passionforbusiness.com/blog/oneproject/comment-page-1/#comment-9445 Karyn Greenstreet Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:42:33 +0000 http://www.passionforbusiness.com/blog/?p=975#comment-9445 Francesca, I can understand completely. Our minds are so creative! (And can always find a million things to add to the To Do list!) Writing it down helps get it out of your brain and on to paper. :) Francesca, I can understand completely. Our minds are so creative! (And can always find a million things to add to the To Do list!) Writing it down helps get it out of your brain and on to paper. :)

]]> By: Francesca http://www.passionforbusiness.com/blog/oneproject/comment-page-1/#comment-9444 Francesca Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:34:58 +0000 http://www.passionforbusiness.com/blog/?p=975#comment-9444 After reading this blog message I think a light just came on. I have been feeling so lost and overwhelmed these past few months and now understand why. I am very bad for doing mind lists. My mind will think of a hundred different things that I need to do. I will write some down but I never thought to seperate my lists. I need to get focused for 2010, December is the perfest month to figure out the direction I want to go in and put my lists together than create an action plan. See here I go again. After reading this blog message I think a light just came on. I have been feeling so lost and overwhelmed these past few months and now understand why.

I am very bad for doing mind lists. My mind will think of a hundred different things that I need to do. I will write some down but I never thought to seperate my lists.

I need to get focused for 2010, December is the perfest month to figure out the direction I want to go in and put my lists together than create an action plan.

See here I go again.

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