I have started to work out a plan for how to tackle the things that I have to get done in the work day, it started out with a revision on how to track my website activity and is now entering a revision of how I approach my to-do lists. I have always made to-do lists, but they tend to be a little like trying to achieve New Years’ resolutions in a single day. Things like:
1. do laundry
2. do dishes
3. write
4. update websites
5. check e-mail
6. ….
You get the picture. Well, I have decided that I need to be more focused and realistic on what my to-do lists have on them. Today’s list is going to be more like…
1. do 1 load of laundry
2. clean sink out and do 1 sink full of dishes
3. write 150 words on Heir to Magic
4. update Alaska Home & Garden with a customized administration panel
5. take 15 minutes – timed – to check e-mail for e-mail I am expecting
6. ….
This is a more focused series of goals that I have to get done. I need to look for a certain e-mail, however, I tend to get lost in deleting SPAM whenever I open my e-mail, today at 15 minutes I have to close the e-mail and get back to it later on, after my work has been completed. I have went to customize the admin panel at Alaska Home and Garden a lot of times, and never actually got it done because I have got sidetracked. Today that is the goal.
I don’t know if this will really work in my favor or if I’ll end up wasting more time coming up with defined to-do’s than I would getting side tracked, but we’ll see how it works out at the end of the day. It don’t help that I got a late start and am only just now, at 5p.m, getting to start work for the day.
