Too Many Things on Your Plate?

Here’s a quick magical trick. Do you ever find you have too many incomplete jobs on hand and tasks piling up and your attention dispersed? Do the following: Make a list of all the jobs. Just list them out on a piece of paper. That’s all. Every time you think of a new incomplete job - add it to the list. Normally you’ll find, a day or two later, that many of them got completed and you can cross them off.

If not, just take some of the easier, faster ones and complete them first and cross them off.

But don’t put “finish all charts” as one job. That would be too overwhelming a task. List each separately. That way, when you finish one, you get to cross it off.

If you are still having trouble, work out a game for yourself with rewards for finishing the list (a golf game, nice dinner, whatever you will be willing to play for) and penalties for not doing it.