Time Management - Marc Mancini
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<strong>Time</strong> <strong>Management</strong><br />
though still alert—you’d like to take a break, and those when<br />
you feel you really need a break. Then take advantage of the<br />
patterns you find by scheduling your activities according to the<br />
following recommendations, whenever possible:<br />
When you’re fully alert, schedule:<br />
• Large, involved projects<br />
• Critical, pressing matters<br />
• Important reading<br />
• Material that’s potentially boring<br />
• Meeting with your boss<br />
• Meetings and phone calls where you mostly listen<br />
• Anything that requires you to be more passive than active<br />
• Anything that should not be interrupted<br />
When you’re alert, schedule:<br />
• Mathematically based activities (e.g., preparing a financial<br />
report)<br />
• Meetings with colleagues or those you supervise<br />
• Dining<br />
• Moderately interesting reading<br />
• Creative work<br />
• Physical activity that requires concentration (e.g., driving)<br />
• Anything that would not suffer from brief, important interruptions<br />
• Most writing, typing, computer work<br />
When you’re sluggish, schedule:<br />
TEAMFLY<br />
• Short-duration projects<br />
• A variety of brief tasks<br />
• Activity that requires physical movement where concentration<br />
is not critical (e.g., walking to another floor or out<br />
to a store)<br />
• Calls or meetings with people you like<br />
• Interactive computer programs (e.g., a CD-ROM for<br />
training.)<br />
• Things you find extremely interesting