I feel like I am finally getting a lot of things accomplished this week. I’m going to tell you why.

I stopped multi-tasking. I’ve been reading Tim Ferris’ The Four Hour Workweek and while I do not believe that I could ever just work 4 hours a week–some of the principles that he teaches have saved me hours of work AND given me more time to finish more tasks.

One of the things he teaches is to make a list the night before of the things you absolutely must complete the next day–I used to do that sporadically–now I do it everyday before I shut down my computer–a WRITTEN list–not an electronic list. And I circle the two most important tasks that MUST be accomplished the next day.

Those are the two tasks that I work on FIRST–I look at my list and I ask myself: “What two tasks can I complete tomorrow that will get me a check?”

And I do them before I do anything else the next day…I get more tasks finished in a few hours than I used to all day.

Another thing he teaches is to NOT open your email first thing in the morning–why? Because instead of working on the two tasks that you need to work on you end up answering all the emails, etc. and never get to the two tasks that were the most important.

O.K. I have to admit–I haven’t broken that habit yet–but I am working on it.

I used to keep my email open all day–and I know I checked it 100 times a day–now once I read the emails, respond, etc. I shut down my email, my skype, my facebook, my twitter and I go to work…

Try it tomorrow–write down the tasks that you absolutely must finish tomorrow–your list can be longer–just circle the two more important ones–and tomorrow work on those FIRST. Don’t open up facebook, don’t open up tweetdeck, NOTHING until those tasks are complete.

So try this for a few days and let me know your experience–just leave a comment–I guarantee you’ll get more done tomorrow…

One last thing before I go:

My freebie site of the week: JotThisDown a very cool site…check it out.

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