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3.Get comfortable with ignoring some tasks

For some of you, even doing things less than perfectly will take too much time. In this case, you will have to blow some stuff off.So experiment and see which things can fall through cracks without anyone noticing.

You already do this. Someone at works sends you an email demanding a response. But before you have time to reply, another recipient does so, so you just delete the original message. Try this approach with work you are not a  central force on and see what happens.

4.Stop complaining before it ruins your life

I can already imagine the comments flying about this column. Some of you will say that you’d be fired for following the above advice. But what’s your choice? You have already told your boss you have more work than you can get done in a day. and he or she didn’t scale back. Do you want to continue to just complain about it everyday? Probably not,because complaining is toxic.

Besides, do you really want to work 15 hour days to get extra work done for a company that doesn’t respect its employees’ time? Why should you give up your personal life because your boss can’t prioritize.

Instead, take control of your life and create a situation where you stop complaining about having too much work. If you are fired for not doing all the work, you probably didn’t want to work at the company anyway. And if you are not able to scale back,consider that you might over-identify with your job to point that you are working harder than you need to because you can’t imagine not being prefect.

5.Take responsibility for being overworked, then change it

OK, suppose you love your work and you are happy working 15-hour days. That’s fine, just don’t complain about it

What i am saying is that if you complain about having too much work you should look in the mirror---it’s your own fault, and you can change the situation by drawing boundaries at work. Be an adult by taking responsibility for you time, and complain only when you have a solution

Star performers don’t talk about being overworked, they talk about the time management. The best time managers excel at it because they are good at figuring out what they don’t have to do. The best time managers have the confidence to say,”I will still be a star even if i don’t do that task.”

This remind me of Gina Trapani, who edits the Lifehacker blog.Gina and three other editors put out a publication that has more readers than just about every local newspaper in this country, and many national magazines. Surely she’s very busy person.But her productivity tips belie a Zen-like balance in which she isolates the most important things and lets other things languish if need be.

Want an example? In order for Gina to blog every day,she has to keep up with hundreds of other bloggers so she knows who to link to. These bolgs come to her via direct feed. what does she do when she’s falling behind and blog posts are piling up? She clear out the in-box and starts over.”If something’s really important,” she said at a panel i attended, “someone will email me about it.”

This is great advice from someone who’s succeeding in an area where most people would succumb to information overload.Clearly the way to do good work is to know when it’s time to not do it.

转载于:https://www.cnblogs.com/sanjia/archive/2011/04/17/2019128.html