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Understand duration of tasks Kishore C.S. (June 2002) Tip #2: Lot of tasks we do take less time than we imagine. Action items:
1. List things you can do in a minute
2. List things you can do in 5 minutes
3. List things you can do in 15 minutes
4. List things you need 2 hours to complete.
Be Creative and add as many things as possible to the list.
This list will help in planning your day.
You will realize that not many tasks we do in a day take lot of time. For example, if we did not make a long overdue phone call to a friend, it is not because you don't have enough time. Though that may be used as an excuse, the actual reason may be something different. Because all it takes to make a call is only 5 minutes. The same applies to many other tasks we have been putting off. Lot of times the tasks we have other causes for postponement than just lack of time. We will discover those in more detail in later articles.
Examples
1 Minute
- Check number of new e-mails
- send a quick e-mail
- make coffee
5 minutes
- Make a phone call
- Have a bath
- Make a shopping list
15 Minutes
- Exercise
- Make a list of things to do for the day
- Read newspaper
- Read a document
- Prepare status report. 1 hour - Prepare new proposal document. |