{"id":108,"date":"2010-03-30T19:36:02","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T19:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timbrison.wordpress.com\/?p=108"},"modified":"2010-03-30T19:36:02","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T19:36:02","slug":"what-do-you-want-to-do-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/03\/what-do-you-want-to-do-today\/","title":{"rendered":"What do you want to do today?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A big fan of the GTD (Getting Things Done) methodology, and having parsed Stephen Coveys 7 Habits<\/a> and taken a cursory glance at his 8th ‘habit’<\/a>, I decided it would be useful to condense this overwhelming raft of information, into ‘Brisons 3 highly efficient habits’:<\/p>\n

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  1. Work on every item only once.<\/li>\n
  2. Plan to simplify.<\/li>\n
  3. Use the famous four Ds: 1) delete it, 2) delegate it, 3) do it, or 4) defer it.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    It would be nice to write a book and make lots of money, but here it is – and for free! It might not seem like much, but there are many folk who think <\/em><\/strong>they do these things but really, don’t.<\/p>\n

    For example, how often do you pick something up, think, then put it down again and move onto another item?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    I see this happening everyday in offices – with all the interruptions, focus gets lost and work postponed: which means it has to be completed later. Some years ago now, I subscribed to the notion that if you can do something in less than 2 minutes, then do it now<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

    I was staggered at how much I achieved following this simple rule.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    So many quick tasks are ‘deferred’ – to do later, when they could really be completed on-the-spot. This has two impacts – you get a piece of work completed and it isn’t adding to a pile of small tasks waiting to be done later. Fab!<\/p>\n

    Planning should be done everyday, some like to plan in the morning, others the night before – either way, the planning process is critical to functioning efficiently. It’s fantastic to arrive in the office, nice and early, knowing you only have to quickly glance over a plan you created the night before.<\/p>\n

    Even better is to plan to simplify<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    Tasks can sometimes appear huge, immovable objects that refuse to ever get done. I have found over the years that nearly everything can be simplified – cut down to size and therefore managed more effectively – so I now regularly ask the question “can this task or process be simplified?”<\/p>\n

    This follows Einsteins principal of making everything as simple as possible, but not simpler and ‘if you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough’. Perfect analogies, I thought.<\/p>\n

    The four D’s which really need no explanation, work in conjunction with point 1) – do everything only once.<\/p>\n

    This then, is really “Brisons 2”:<\/p>\n

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    1. Plan to simplify.<\/li>\n
    2. Delete, delegate, do or defer\u00a0 – but only once.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      And it works like a charm!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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