Here I was working away and as I do with thoughts popping up like “Bugga – I have to do this” or “…That’s a good idea. I had better get onto that..”.
What usually happens is I run off like a mad thing, stopping what I was doing to look at what just “popped into my head”.
Well as part of my “Get organised and get stuff done” regime it suddenly occurred to me that those moments aint bad things, it’s how you deal with them.
So I created a new Folder called – ToDo. Created a new Text Document called it “20090329_ToDo.txt and started to write down those things that “pop up” in my head to come back to LATER.
That’s the key! Get it down on paper or in a text file and keep working on what you were doing. You can come back and you wont be in fear of the dreaded “I had best do it before I forget…”
Once you get your original task down, come back to the list and start knocking off the tasks you thought of.
It’s not rocket science but it’s definitely a very good habit to get into.
It’s funny how simple things like this seem to escape us.
So Don’t fight it – write it.
That speaks for itself!
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