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An Easy Way to Stay on Top of Goals and Actually Get Stuff Done

There is simply too much to do, yes?

I’m guessing almost everyone can relate to that statement. So what have you tried to make it all work?

Have you tried planners, new organization programs, goal-setting, resolutions, even apps that are supposed to help? And then you got excited about the new program and started off with a an enthusiastic bang, only to lose your resolve when things started to pile up? Yeah, me too.

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Multitasking: Not Really a Good Idea

It’s pretty near impossible to operate on any given day without multitasking.

With the explosion of technology, people have gotten used to talking on a cell phone while driving or walking, sitting at a desk and working on a on something while glancing at email or tracking Facebook, cooking dinner and doing laundry at the same time, or any number of other scenarios that are familiar to us all.

We think multitasking makes us more effective and is a good management strategy, and it would seem that sometimes it is.

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The Starter Technique

Last night I was on the couch trying to relax on a Sunday night, but thoughts of work I needed to get done kept intruding in my mental space.

I could put it off until Monday, but I knew that if I did that, my whole day would be thrown off and probably my whole week. It wasn’t hard work at all, but tedious and I just wasn’t in the mood.

Happens all the time doesn’t it?

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Quick Method to Get on Top of Your “To Do” List

It’s easy to get quite overwhelmed when you have a lot to do, especially if there are timelines involved and your list covers many different areas of your life.

Most of us have work stuff, house stuff, kid stuff, relationship stuff, and any number of other things that come up periodically like getting the oil changed in the car, renewing your auto tag, making brownies for the fund raiser at school, etc. You get the picture.

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