![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Understanding that the ‘enter as you go’ time entry method is king, how can I do a better job of tracking time? Something that I found few years ago really served me well and I’ll be implementing it again in my daily life – The Printable CEO by David Seah. ….which of course I am procrastinating on by typing this blog post. ![]() Now I have at least an hour or two in front of me to figure those times out and enter them in our system. On the other hand, there are weeks (like the one that I just came out of) where all I have is a stack of scribbles on note cards to from which to discern my weekly efforts. If you take the opportunity to enter your time as you consume it, there is no problem. Here at InterWorks, we use a homegrown time entry tool that works just fine. This makes time tracking one of the biggest burdens of my day and something I usually spend valuable time trying to cleanup later. If you work on a single task associated with a single project for 8-10 hours per day, then time tracking is simple and you do not understand why I am writing this.įor me, my world seems to change every 7-10 minutes and whatever I planned for the day is completely irrelevant by 10am. Knock out your MITs in a timely manner, then you have time to complete your less important tasks.Depending on your role and your typical daily activities, tracking time can be a very easy task or a nightmare. If you have the entire day to finish the MIT, you may procrastinate, and not finish the project until the end of the workday. Parkinson’s Law maintains that work expands to fill the period of time available for its completion. Parkinson’s Law was developed by Northcote Parkinson is a Raffles Professor of History at the University of Singapore, and was first published in The Economist in November 1955. The reason you should create an artificial deadline for your MITs to motivate you and so you won’t procrastinate. You should impose an imaginary deadline to accomplish your MITs. How Parkinson’s Law Will Assist With Your Productivity If you have employees working for you, consider delegating your less important jobs to your workers. The ETP enables you to organize your day with each MIT, the time it should take to accomplish, and schedule your workday. David Seah offers an “ Emergent Task Planner” – a free downloadable PDF that you can print out for free to plan your day. There’s a form you can print out to make prioritizing your MITs even easier. To determine your MITs, you can ask yourself, “What are the most important tasks that I need to accomplish today?” and “What are the challenges that if I achieved today would make a huge difference?” Don’t divert your focus or energy on any other responsibilities until these MITs are completed. You can create a general to-do list, but the MITs are your number one priority because they are the most significant or are time-critical. You then put everything else to the side until these MITs are completely finished. Employing The Most Important Task (MIT) MethodĪt the beginning of each day, spend a few minutes creating a list of two or three most important tasks or MITs. The Most Important Task strategy forces you to determine the most important tasks and then tackle them before all other obligations. Some tasks need to be accomplished before others because of deadlines, time-sensitivity, or have the most significant value to you and your organization. What Is The Most Important Task (MIT) Method? Prioritizing your tasks and employing the Most Important Task (MIT) method can pay huge dividends, make you far more productive, and help your career. You only have so many hours in the day to accomplish everything you set out to achieve. ![]()
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