Plan your day or someone else will.

I start each work day off with a planning session. It doesn’t take long, 5 minutes is all you need. David Allen constantly reminds us that what’s on our minds must be dealt with.
Priority

In this 5 minutes planning session I write down what’s on my mind and deal with it. This is when I prioritize the day’s work. 

Stop and pause for a moment! How to do an effective weekly review.

I know you don’t have time. We all have too much to do and the thought of taking an hour to review everything we have to do seems a bit crazy. Unfortunately we praise people who are always busy but ask yourself are they really effective or just busy? I learned about the weekly review from David Allen in his book Getting Things Done.  I did my first weekly review after reading that book and I’ve continued since that day to do them.

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It’s hard to break away and stop to reflect on what you are doing and where you are going.