Do It From Start to Finish

Want to be more effective and save yourself time? Then stop working in fits and starts. Stop doing a little bit of this and moving on to do a little bit of that, only to go back to do a little more on this before going back to that. Every time you start a job and don't finish it you have a learning curve when you return to the unfinished job. You have to remember where you were, what you were doing, and what you were going to do next; thoughts that were probably fixed in your mind before you abandoned the job.

Experts on time management advise us to pick up a job and do it completely from start to finish before we begin something else; to minimize stopping one job to work on another before the first job is finished. If you focus on that goal and concentrate on doing jobs from beginning to end without interruption whenever possible you will gain substantial increases in productivity and time saved.

I've tried it. It works for me. Why not try it and see if it works for you.

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