Finish One Task Before Starting Another
“Mary, finish one task before starting another,” a co-worker remarked at my outside-the-home job. “If we jump around too much we never finish anything.”
Good advice, I realized, as long as we don’t get interrupted. I do have a habit of going from one task to another without finishing it and that may keep me from being as organized as I could be. However, sometimes, life or family or another task interferes with my efforts to finish the first.
I am trying to do better, though, in keeping at a task until it’s finished, particularly if it’s not one that requires several stages or days to accomplish. When I think of something else that needs to be done, I take a moment and consider, “Does it need to be done NOW? Or can I finish what I’m doing first?”
How do you organize tasks so that you accomplish the most you can?
Image:sxc.hu