Solution is very simple , not a Surprise.
Well, I am honest with you and this one of my values that I am proud of.
I was very messy at work when I started in the private sector 12 years ago.
I dont mean " Messy" as the footballer, he is the other way around
By the way, I don't mean " Messy" as the famous footballer, he is the other way round
I mean real English world of being " Messy"
And, part of that was the fact that I left all the pending from previous working days and just focus on the today new tasks.
Basiclaly, whatever I couldn't close on the sameday, It will be left for the rest of my life.
Of Course, unless I got somebody to chase me or even worth when I got yelled for pending items, by then I realized that I have forgotten tasks.
In other words, I learned it ,the hard way.
I realized that will not take me anywhere, and what was most importantly, I dont want to harm anybody and delaying their benefits since I was dealing with employees at the human resource department at that time.
This is one things that I have changed for better in last 12 years.
And here are some of the things that helped me improve:
- Coaching and Mentoring: Boy, don't be shy, seek for it. I started asking my colleagues at the time, how to improve this weakness. At don't give up: some people will turn you down and some others they don't have the right tips; just keep asking
- Think of of the Box: keep asking yourself and even with the help of your family and friends on how you can solve it. Simple, share your problems again and seek for help.
- Do it more scientifically: at the time social media like youtube and the uncle google was not that popular and easy to grab information, but that doesn't stop me to search for written and visual solution for my problem.
Here we go in more visual :
just, keep trying , and that what I basically did.
Here we go with tools that I am using for the the last 12 years to better organize myself at work:
- Note Taking : I always keep simple and small notebook just to track tasks
- Excel Sheet : I keep both daily tasks and main routine tasks both in One tracker.
- Outlook Calendar: specially when to comes to meeting and appointment, In fact and to give you more tips, I have started to use even outside work tasks, for my business and personal meetings and appoints. It works well, trust me.
- Technology : in here I should stop writing about this, with all this advancement in technology , there all so many things to manage your daily tasks at work or even outside. In addition, you are not sure which to use and not sure about the best advices for particular task management issue, please use the technology: google , youtube, slideshow, and e.t.c
Here we go with my first attempt to create an animated video about how to solve the same problem in very simple way too.
Additional tips to the above, I hope you like it
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7 年As I was reading and thoughts flys with memories on my head ,U made me realize I was a star from the beginning and was lucky I got great coach in the start of my career. Good article Dr. Fahad.