Getting Things Done

This week was a great week to start getting things done.  I had have all my grades updated by Friday because interims were due.  On top of this, I need have to have all my teacher observations done by next Friday and along with all that, I need to keep up on my school work.  The firs thing I did was list everything on a piece of paper.  Next, I started to organize everything and decide which category it would have to go in.  My observations were put in my outlook calendar so I would have a date and time to observe.  I put all my students work in the category of next action because I knew this needed to get done right away.  This was put in my task app on my phone.  Grad work?  Well, I knew that it was something that I could do when I had a free moment so I placed this under projects.  I knew this would become a next action step when all my interims were done.

It really made me feel at ease to organize my to do list like this.  I felt as though I could concentrate on one thing without having to worry about the others.  As I look back, I can see how much I accomplished this week and it was with less stress than usual.

This year I have taken on a lot of new responsibilities and I believe that by using this process I will be able to accomplish my task with full efficiency.  To organize my time with the task  that I have, allows for me to sit down and focus on one thing and one thing only.  As a wise man once told me, multitasking is doing two things without a full commitment to either one.   

I will continue to use this process because I feel that it gives priority to each task.  It also helps to organize my task by placing them in the different organizational tools that are available to me.