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📝 👨🏽💻 5 Tips to Prevent Little Tasks from Hijacking and Disrupting Your Entire Day 🔎 👩🏻�� 5 Tips to Deal with Uncertainty
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Have you ever felt that you've had a busy day but not so productive? Or maybe you haven't stopped to take a breath all day but still struggle to put your head on the pillow at night satisfied that you got what you needed done? It happens to us all at some stage. I was getting ready to start my day this morning when I got an email with a request for help (NOT URGENT) and I was about to go off down the rabbit hole to find answers and ways to solve and respond to it immediately. This one tiny task was going to hijack and disrupt my morning planning and planned focus work session.
So, thankfully I caught myself on early enough and went back to my focused planned work. These are the wee Things That can Take You Off Track and disrupt your day, hijack your time and get you sidetracked completely.
This story is an example of those “little tasks” that we sometimes pick up that can end up taking more time than estimated and completely hijack our morning and it’s these little tasks that will quickly eat up your entire day if you let them.
What you think is going to be a quick side task leads to a rabbit-hole of wasted time. Without discipline, a few of these small diversions can take over hours of your day.
That one email you are going to read… only to find yourself 200 messages deep in your inbox.
The one website you are going check… which leads to an hour of web surfing.
That one thing you are going to do… that takes you away from your work for the rest of the morning.
“Little tasks aren’t always so little… and small distractions can disrupt your entire day.”
So, how do you prevent these small distractions from taking up all your time?
Here are 5 Tips to Prevent these Little Tasks from Hijacking and Disrupting Your Entire Day..
Have you ever felt that you've had a busy day but not so productive? Or maybe you haven't stopped to take a breath all day but still struggle to put your head on the pillow at night satisfied that you got what you needed done? It happens to us all at some stage. I was getting ready to start my day this morning when I got an email with a request for help (NOT URGENT) and I was about to go off down the rabbit hole to find answers and ways to solve and respond to it immediately. This one tiny task was going to hijack and disrupt my morning planning and planned focus work session.
So, thankfully I caught myself on early enough and went back to my focused planned work. These are the wee Things That can Take You Off Track and disrupt your day, hijack your time and get you sidetracked completely.
This story is an example of those “little tasks” that we sometimes pick up that can end up taking more time than estimated and completely hijack our morning and it’s these little tasks that will quickly eat up your entire day if you let them.
What you think is going to be a quick side task leads to a rabbit-hole of wasted time. Without discipline, a few of these small diversions can take over hours of your day.
That one email you are going to read… only to find yourself 200 messages deep in your inbox.
The one website you are going check… which leads to an hour of web surfing.
That one thing you are going to do… that takes you away from your work for the rest of the morning.
“Little tasks aren’t always so little… and small distractions can disrupt your entire day.”
So, how do you prevent these small distractions from taking up all your time?
Here are 5 Tips to Prevent these Little Tasks from Hijacking and Disrupting Your Entire Day..
14 min