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Owning Your Free Time!

Habits to Help Jumpstart Your Work

Have you ever found yourself doing a simple task over and over?

There are a few commonalities that you will find:

The task becomes boring

When doing something that takes 15 minutes, but you do it again and again and AGAIN. These become monotonous and for the self-starter in you, it decreases job satisfaction and your personal efficiency.

Multiple “boring” tasks become overcomplicated

As you add more of these tasks to your to-do list, eventually a request will come across your desk to add one more thing to your “simple task.” It will include things like:

• Change the color of the font when X or Y occurs
• Jazelle left, can you start sending it to me while we find her replacement.
• When adding a new store, make sure you change the Store Sheet, add an entry into JIRA and make sure to send out an email to Operations.

And this is just one of those tasks, as you add more simple subtasks it becomes overly complicated and you start introducing.

Overcomplicated tasks introduce overlooking subtasks