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O.H.I.O

Only.Handle.It.Once

You may have heard the term before, I feel it can be put to good use for large projects. When you have a lot of small components, working together to form a particular function of role in a business system, it's best to StartAndFinish the component in a single attempt. You must resist the urge to procrastinate and put off what seems to be difficult or requires more time than other parts of the system.

Otherwise you end up with a graveyard of unfinished compenents that can sometimes not intergrate with one another as well as if they had been completed. The 'painted door' can often require more time for the developer to come back to solve the problem and get their mind back into the role and purpose of the function.

So Only Handle It Once, do it right the first time and do it properly.

#O.H.I.O #productivity #project management #thebluebox

fastcompany

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fastcompany:

“Stop Tweeting Dumb Sh*t” And Other New Workplace Rules

Activity vs Productivity

Just because you're busy doesn't mean you're getting anything done.

There are a couple questions to ask yourself while you are spending time on your work.

What is the Goal?

Can this be done more efficiently?

Should this be done by someone else? Does another member of staff have expertise in this area? Do you have something more important to handle.

Can this be measured? How far have you come and how much further is there to go. Depending on the importance of the task you can use these questions to gauge whether it is time for a break or pause this project to move forward on another with similar importance.

Am I doing this right the first time? To prevent having to come back again at a later stage when I hardly have the time to complete it now.

Why is this not finished yet!? Be relentless in your quest to complete the task as soon as you can, as best you can.

Get busy.ShutUpandFocus.Finish..

#productivity #activity #focus #blueboxonline

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works. - Steve Jobs

Freedom is killing you.

"...All the best work that I’ve done, the most progress that I’ve made, was done with the help of social pressure and a routine that was unforgiving of failure. If you’re from the Western world, I’m going to guess you’re the same..."

by Julien Smith via http://inoveryourhead.net

mattgalligan

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mattgalligan:

I wake up at the same exact time every single day, feeling very refreshed, regardless of the amount of sleep I got the night before. Crazy right?

About six years back, I used to be the absolute worst in the mornings. I’d get pissed at the fact that my snooze would simply stop working after...

#health #health hacks #sleep #tired

Reduce everything you want to do, to an action you can do right now.

Jason Randal

Why work doesnt happen at work - Jason Fried

#Jason Fried #productivity #management

All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes..

Winston Churchill

#mistakes #learn #wise men

How to work better..

Do one thing at a time

Know the problem

Learn to listen

Learn to ask questions

Distinguish sense from nonsense

Accept change as inevitable

Admit mistakes

Say it simple

Be calm

Smile

#work better #simple #smile #mistakes #sense #blueboxonline

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

-Sharpen your axe-

Take the time..

I have often thought, do it once and do it right, the first time. But it seems there is value in checking your work. When working on a large project requiring weeks of development time a simple thing like an on-event email can be carelessly overlooked.

Only when returning to the functionality mentioned, does it become apparent that something was not quite finished, this can lead to customer frustration and a decrease in the profitability versus the time taken on a project.

Take the time, double check the work if you are unsure, just make sure its right. Going back to fix something often takes just as much time as doing it correctly in the first place.

slow.down.save.time

#right the first time #double check #frustration #project managment #careless

5. Be quick to decide.

“Remember what General George S. Patton said: ‘A good plan violently executed today is far and away better than a perfect plan tomorrow.’ ”

From ~ http://blogs.wsj.com/wealth/2011/06/24/a-new-billionaires-10-rules-for-success/

Click the title of the post to view the full article on Fred Wilson's blog http://www.avc.com/

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He explained that I should start working on a project as soon as it was assigned. An hour or so would do fine, he told me. He told me to come back to the project every day for at least a little bit and make progress on it slowly over time.

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Once your brain starts working on a problem, it doesn't stop. If you get your mind wrapped around a problem with a fair bit of time left to solve it, the brain will solve the problem subconsciously over time and one day you'll sit down to do some more work on it and the answer will be right in front of you.

#advice #Fred Wilson #problem solving #subconscious #progress #productivity

Stop reading productivity blogs and do some work..

We rate ability in men by what they finish, not by what they attempt.

Harry F Banks

#finish #attempt

The importance of finishing what you start..

So often I come across work that hasn't been completed. Something where a critical element is outstanding preventing a task from being resolved. Even myself, an email draft that hasn't been finished.

The thing is it often takes just about the same amount of time to get your thoughts aligned and back into what you were doing in the first place, which can double the amount of time taken to wrap up the task.

A good friend of mine uses analogies often, I am finding them more and more useful to be able to fully understand and work through quandaries in the work place.

It's like getting in a car and driving toward a destination, stopping halfway to turn around and head in the opposite direction then after some time stopping once more to back to your original destination.

What is urgent, isn't necessarily the most productive thing for you to be doing right now.

#productivity #urgent #important #focus

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