Don’t let your schedule rattle around your head like a bag of dancing snakes.
1. List out everything that needs to get done on a piece of paper or spreadsheet.
2. Highlight what’s most important and urgent and then put a number against each highlighted item to emphasize it’s priority.
3. Then grab the first five items from that list. Write them on a separate piece of paper and stick them next to your monitor or phone
4. Unplug the phone, hypnotize your Cat into a deep coma, send your Dog to a Store a few hundred blocks away, nail your Office Door shut or just put a “Quarantined” sign outside your door
5. Delegate what you can to your “sober” team members or employees
6. Block out a 120-minute uninterrupted time slot (or you could just do 2 hours) and get to work.
To help concentrate better, consider getting yourself a Water wall,a Water feature, a Rain/Ocean Sounds CD or just tune into Focus at will (as I do).
7. When you and your team are done with the first five tasks, grab the next five in line and churn away (until someone eventually shows up at your doorstep with a few straitjackets).
