Lately, work has been very overwhelming for me. I've had to give some of my tasks to another person just in efforts to make sure everything gets done. I don't like to let people down, and I want to be a good worker. But, I also don't believe in working too much. I was working about 9 hours a day and still had things left undone each day.
This was causing me a lot of stress, so I decided to take action. I opened up a blank Word document and I proceeded to type out each day in time brackets scheduling what I would do with each minute of my work day. Of course, I'm not sticking to it rigidly. If I need a few extra minutes on a task, I'll take it. If I need to skip something, I will. But, I'm in week 2 of following my schedule, and it is working so great. I feel so much less stress, and I am so much more efficient. I guess it's easier to know what to focus on. And, I know that everything should get worked on each week.
Also, I'm trying the only touch it once rule. This means that if I have a paper (or an e-mail, or whatever), I try to take care of it right then, rather than set it aside for later. Obviously, I can't do that entirely, but my version of it is helping me get things accomplished, as well as my new schedule.
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