Tackling Tasks

One of the best ways of getting things done is to think of them as a goal to be achieved. Do this constantly and get into the habit of always having goals and moving towards them successfully. If this becomes a practice that you scrupulously follow, you will find that if life does throw a problem at you, you will already be having the mindset required to solve that problem by treating it as a goal to be achieved. I practice this myself constantly. There are days and sometimes weeks together when no real problem comes to me in my normally sedate life. But everyday I present myself with a problem to be solved or a task to be accomplished, and concentrate on that day to move towards the solution to my problem. It is sometimes something as mundane as having to pay the telephone bill, or going to the barbers and having my hair trimmed. But I do treat these as problems, find the time and the wherewithal to accomplish those tasks and end the day with something having been achieved.

There are days when the pending tasks to things to be done seem to stretch a long way. At these times I do sit myself down and decide on which are the tasks that need the priority. Quite often things just come on to your list of things to be done, because they are there. They may be of no urgency and even quite often of no real consequence to any one but you. So just let them go or leave them for another day. Even when you have a fair number of things to do, prioritize them as per their need to be done, the convenience of doing them or even the ease of doing them. Get rid of the small easy things first so all of a sudden you will find the list of things to be done as having shrunk and become very manageable.

Do take some time to introspect and reflect on the things you have done or accomplished throughout the day and feel that sense of satisfaction that comes over you. Reflect on whether the things you have done could have been done in any other way or even avoided altogether by some preemptive action on your part. There may be things in your list which you had to do because of your negligence or not finding the time to them at the appropriate time. Stow away this knowledge for the future.

Writing is a hobby which I have picked up again after being away from it for a couple of decades. Whether I will be successful and be able to earn some money from writing I do not know. But one thing is certain. The hours of the day go by quite easily when I am writing and reading, and that is how I would like the rest of my life to be.