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How to Get Things Done?
in a five-year study, psychologist Piers Steel, Ph.D., at the University of Calgary found that 95 percent of us report having postponement problems. We put off jobs we find tedious, as well as things that inspire fear of failure, of not living up to our own expectations, of never finishing insecurities that threaten our very identities.
A great many people have come up to me and asked me how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated. I answer them: online task management.
How does it work?
Runing an online task management can help you to get things done by admittedly simplified, more or less the following:
Clear your head from all tasks: Collect all new stuff in some sort of inbox
Come back periodically during the day to purge the inbox: Ask yourself, is this actionable or not? If it is not, it may serve as reference for later. If it is, you have several options: do it if it takes less than 2 minutes, delegate it if someone else can do it, defer an action and either do it as soon as you can or on a specific date, and identify the next steps for those tasks that need some more thinking.
Everything you are not currently working on, is ideally collected in a repository. As you work, come back to the repository and choose the most important task based on the context and the time and resources you have available
