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Focus on what is important to you

1. PWGD/VisionsUnite
2. Agaric
3. Economic Equality
4. Family and friends

Up until 3 years ago I was always 10 minutes late

Orginizing is:
A process
Skills you can learn
A series of habits leaned by repetition

1. Don't know where to put everything that comes in (tax docs, some that had a place, right now)
2.

Have to pick a day and time to do them. You do need to set an appointment with yourself.

Don't spend eight hours straight organizing.

Visualize what success looks like.

(that awesome black girl, was in some sessions yesterday, asks)
Is multitasking bad?
Sometimes I'm a multitasker, and sometimes I'm a multiprocrastinator.

focus on one thing and get it done faster.

Maybe for some of you it works. But I will say for 80% it doesn't, but you will get it done faster if you focus on one task.

List of small 2 minute tasks.

Need priorities and goals.

Create a master list of everything you have to do. This will create some anxiety.

You don't have to do everything on the list, you just have

Did anyone do David Allen's Getting Things Done?

Tricia:
I started, and then I stopped.

I'm an organizer, and I was afraid. I went through the practice, and he's right about a lot of this stuff, but it's very, very intimidating. So I create it piecemeal.

Figure out the time you have:

What are your commitments? Appointments, etc.

You take whatever remaining time, and 50% is taken up by distractions. It may be important things.

11 p.m. to midnight: Personal communication including Facebook.

E-mails is an hour and a half session of its own.
I have an empty inbox. It takes a little bit of work.
Do not keep your e-mail open.
If you say you will do your e-mail in 30 minutes, you get really good at prioritizing. You hit the most urgent ones.

If it is a task, put it on the todo list and get rid of the e-mail.

I recently bartered for getting my shirts ironed.

Do it: The 2 minute rule.

If it honestly takes less than two minutes to do, just do it.

Or put it on your hit list to do all at once, or in spare moments:
Do like things together. It puts your brain in a certain mode.

Girl (was at the Worker's Cooperative session yesterday with the same guy) now in a "Tofu - It's what's for dinner." T-shirt said:
Also chart what's in your environment. I need sunlight to work productively. Know when things are loud and quiet and what tasks you do better at which.

Tips for success:
Notice when you're wasting time.

In more detail for PWGD:

A convocational web site. Skills and interests. Expectations hopes for a network of everyone (privacy, sharing, etc.)