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How to stay organized to meet your deadlines
From the course: Personal Effectiveness Tips
How to stay organized to meet your deadlines
- These days, we all have more obligations than ever so it's hard to keep track and stay focused. Here's how to stay organized and meet your most important deadlines. First, make sure you have the right systems in place. If you want to write a book you're almost certainly not going to just sit down one weekend and bang it out. You need a plan and a structure to get it done, because it's a big project that takes time. That's the case for almost any meaningful goal. How are you going to keep track of it? All your system needs to be is just a way to keep track of timelines and tasks. That could be a notebook, a to-do list, special planner, software you name it. You can experiment with what works best for you. Second, you have to make progress on the most important task every day. The author Stephen Covey famously talked about the tension between the urgent, the daily fires that scream out at us, and the important, the goals, often long-term, that we prize the most but that often get…
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How to cut back on social media2m 34s
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How to stay organized to meet your deadlines3m 29s
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What to do when you’ve made a mistake2m 46s
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How to deal with an insensitive colleague2m 20s
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How to get better at asking for help3m 7s
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How to make time for networking even when you’re busy3m 7s
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How to gain the respect of your colleagues2m 31s
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How to reduce stress in your office2m 55s
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How to get small annoying tasks done2m 51s
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How to network with people outside your industry2m 59s
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How to network with people you can’t meet in person2m 55s
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