Weekly Dose #012 How I Get Things Done
How often have you had a job on your “to do list” that sat there for days, sometimes even weeks? But you can stop torturing yourself now and start to get stuff done. The answer isn’t a new app or sophisticated organisation system. The answer, is in your brain.
In today’s issue I’ll talk to you about how to get things done.
How often have you had a job on your “to do list” that sat there for days, sometimes even weeks?
Didn’t it create a sense of anxiety, sat there, growing in imagined difficulty?
But you can stop torturing yourself now and start to get stuff done.
The answer isn’t a new app or sophisticated organisation system.
The answer, is in your brain.
How I Used to Not Get Things Done
Years ago I used to carry a “to do” list with me. It would have no limit of jobs to do, usually everything I have thought of that morning. Mistake 1.
I would chop through as many as I could in no specific order during my day. Often I would start with the easiest job first for an easy win. Mistake 2.
I would then move on to the next item on my list which I had written down and start with that. Mistake 3.
On every list there would be one item that I would get to, feel “blurgh, I don’t want to do this” and then skip to the next item. Mistake 4.
By the end of the day I would be tired, still have not done my blurgh job and kick that can to the next day.
I would then repeat this cycle the next day. The blurgh job would grow in imagined difficulty. Because it had been on the list for longer than the rest, my illogical brain believes it must be more difficult.
I hope this sounds painfully familiar to you.
Because I’m going to take that pain away.
How to I Now Get Stuff Done
Let’s look at my mistakes and then the solution for each.