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Lynsey GwinIf you leave the office most nights feeling exhausted, overwhelmed, and behind on everything you've got to get done at work—even though you just spent 10 hours there—you're letting your workday get away from you.
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Make a lunch or dinner date (to create a deadline)
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Write down the first thing you have to do tomorrow morning and put it on your keyboard before you leave the office.
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Don't check email for the first hour of the day.
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Chances are there are a few you can cross off right this moment because they're not worth doing after all. A "good idea at the time" isn't always a good idea.
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Cut someone off.
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When your brain is frozen in a solid block of paralyzed procrastination around a task and you're letting yourself get carried away by distractions like email and instant messenger, it's time to take out the big guns. Turn off your email and IM client, grab a kitchen timer, set it for 10 minutes, and work until the beep. Then, take a break. Wash, rinse, and repeat. I swear by this technique, which got me through writing 400 pages of the Lifehacker book when all I wanted to do was crawl under the bed and hide. If you give yourself an easy deadline (it's only 10 minutes!) and make it a race with the clock, you'll unfreeze your brain and break through your blocks.
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diigodeli dunbarTop 10 Smart and Lazy Ways to Save Your Workday
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10. Make a lunch or dinner date (to create a deadline).
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9. Write down the first thing you have to do tomorrow morning and put it on your keyboard before you leave the office.
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The best time of the day to GTD is first thing in the morning, so make it easy on yourself.
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8. Don't check email for the first hour of the day.
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7. Decide NOT to do one task on your to-do list and cross it off.
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6. Edit that email you're writing down to less than five sentences.
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No one likes to get long-winded email, and email's not the appropriate place to have extended conversations. The shorter your email is, the more likely you are to get a response.
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5. Cut someone off
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4. Book a meeting with yourself.
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1. Do a free jot brain dump.
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Aaron ZRedeem the time because the days are evil...
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