Your work is not a monotonous and endless process
One of the reasons of procrastination is time-consuming task. Some of the tasks may seem so big that you even don't know if you'll ever be able to finish it. The picture of endless and boring working day devoting to this particular task appears in your mind. How to make yourself start the task after that? Remember that you don't have to work all day on this particular task. Give yourself permission to take a break. If you schedule breaks or other kinds of activity while accomplishing this task it will help you see that your work is not a monotonous and endless process. And it will help you overcome the procrastination before starting the work.
"Schedule breaks" To Do List
- First of all define how long can you concentrate on a certain task
- View the task in a sober light and divide it into several approaches in accordance with your attention span
- Commit to work for definite time interval and then have a break or change your activity when your attention span is exhausted
- Use software to include the breaks into your schedule during the accomplishment of the long task
Action plan
- Start you scheduling software
- Track the tasks assigned on 'today'
- If there are any time consuming tasks among them divide them into several time periods
- Schedule breaks or other activities at the time between these periods
- Start doing the tasks
See also:
Assign similar tasks to the same time
CentriQS Task Scheduling Solution CentriQS users can choose the most convenient way to schedule tasks. If most of your tasks require scheduling, you can add new tasks directly in the Scheduler view. If you schedule tasks from task list, you can drag'n'drop created tasks to the Scheduler panel. If you set task start and finish dates and time, you can do this on the Schedule tab of task detail view. Also CentriQS supports "splitting task" into multiple schedule items in case you plan to break task into parts and schedule them at different time and days of the week. |
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