Vous avez beaucoup de tâches à accomplir avant la date limite. Comment pouvez-vous les hiérarchiser ?

Prioritize self-check-ins to assess your physical, mental, and emotional energy levels before diving into tasks. Understanding your current state empowers you to make informed decisions about task prioritization and pacing, optimizing productivity and well-being.

This is a part of productivity many people don’t talk about. In the end, you are the one carrying out the task and if you are not at your optimal state, then the tasks are as good as undone. Assessing yourself will help you determine which task you can take up at a given time. It also helps to know your optimal work times. If you observe you are more of a morning person, then do well to put the more demanding tasks then, and use your “lazier” times to do less demanding things (maybe even regular leisure activities). This will boost your productivity in a way you can’t imagine.

The Eisenhower Matrix is a well accepted tool when it comes to prioritising. In the long run, you may not have to outrightly draw the table. You may just do a quick ranking of the tasks and try to follow the order of arrangement. The ranking would still take urgency and importance into account, but sometimes (read ‘many times’), you may end up ranking based on your energy level. So, if I have a number of tasks listed and I feel really tired already, I can easily look for the easiest one to check off, just so I can get a quick win. This then serves as my dopamine boost to go for another. The task I complete may not be my most urgent or important, but it just gives a sense of accomplishment, which in turn propels me to take on the next.

Utilize the Eisenhower matrix to categorize tasks based on their urgency and importance. Prioritize urgent and important tasks to meet immediate deadlines and address critical issues, while scheduling important but not urgent tasks for later to align with long-term goals and growth.

Match task categories from the Eisenhower matrix with your energy levels throughout the day. Schedule urgent and important tasks during peak energy periods to maximize focus and efficiency. Reserve periods of lower energy for less demanding tasks or breaks, optimizing productivity and well-being.

Oh yes. Focusing on one task per time is that hill I will stay on forever. Multitasking is not as beneficial as we think it is. You are less attentive to either activity, hence you may not be doing your best work because you are not focused. Time blocking aids focus and boosts productivity tremendously. Typically, people suggest the 30-minute work, then 5-minute break method. I personally find it distracting. I believe you need to find what works best for you. If you are able to work long hours, then take longer breaks, that’s fine as well. I don’t think there’s a fixed schedule to this. It’s important all the same, that break are incorporated. Just find what works best for you and adjust to it.

One last thing I would like to add is that part of staying in control of your time is knowing when to say “NO”. Don’t try to be a superhero at your expense. You will break yourself. Learn to negotiate, delegate and outrightly say no. It will help a great deal with productivity and managing your tasks better.