What a handy little tool my BlackBerry has been to help me organize my office tasks recently!  Do I mean I’ve used it to process emails?  No.  Do I mean I’ve used to to keep track of my schedule while on the go?  Nope.  Does it mean I’ve used it to sync my schedule with Outlook?  Nada.  I’ve simply used the alarm to help me put a cap on how long I am focusing on separate tasks-super simple!

Recently my interior design partner put a status on facebook that she had set a timer for 30 minutes while working in her office and just how much she got done during that 30 minutes.  It can be easy to get caught up and lost in our tasks, especially on email and social media.  Once you get sucked in, you can kinda get lost for a while.  So, instead of feeling like I have to do any one task in my office for long periods of time, I am setting my alarm on my phone, actually for just 15 minute increments.  It really is amazing how much you can get done in one focused 15 minute session.  At first I had the alarm tone that I use to wake me up each day, which of course needs to be somewhat annoying.  That doesn’t work when you are in the middle of concentrating unless you want to give yourself mini heart attacks all day.  So I changed it to a soothing tone to shake me ever more gently out of my current task.  And  it seems to be working. 

Organize your office tasks by breaking tasks into smaller chunks of dedicated time.

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