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Old Apr 08, 2010, 02:10 AM
WendyAussie WendyAussie is offline
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Can I make a suggestion about your work management. I'm a great believer that setting aside time for organisaing and planning work is time well spent - it will make you more productive and less stressed over time. It will get the basics done and then allow your Bipoar creativeness to be used in the best way. Unless you have something urgent that must be done, make the very next thing you do at work to go through your folders, in tray, work in progress tray (Or just the whole pile of paperwork on your desk if that's how it is right now. LOL).

Sort through from the highets priority stuff that MUST get done by a certain date, then cull, cull cull as you go through. Maybe use a three tiered system. Must get done by X date being the top tier, must get done by a farther back date the next tier and thirdly, not a key project, good to get done if you can, but not essesntial and can be turfed if necssary. And then turf everything else.

I was (until I lost my career) good at keeping a Work in Progress (WIP) File on my PC and when something new came in, put it into the table or spreadsheet, when you have done progress on something, update the WIP, and when you have completed something, update the WIP then. This helps you, but is also a good tool to show your manager if necessary.

Most people benefit from a process like this, but Beepers even more so, as our functionality ebbs and flows so much. Just a thought.