Assuming that you are now armed with your
Notebook and To Do Lists, the next logical and crucial steps are your
'follow-up and follow-through'.
While it is terrific that you are using these tools in pursuit of optimal organizational skills, it will be meaningless without your follow-through and action. You will feel a wonderful sense of accomplishment as you cross your tasks off the lists consistently, and review what little remains to be done at the end of your work day. As your lists and notebooks rotate, so too will your comfort level with using these tools. As an added bonus, you can anticipate achieving an increased level of self-satisfaction and professional recognition and acknowledgment for your efforts in this area as well.
These tools are habit-forming, and as you work with them you will begin to recognize a pattern with respect to which tasks you are prone to working with first, not including of course the high priority items listed for that given day or week. This new found recognition of what you are naturally inclined to work on first will help shape the direction of your future career options.
Our next topic will be on Time Saving Tips for Document Preparation - particularly 'Rush' projects.