Remote Work Digest: September 21, 2016

FRESNO, Calif. - Sept. 20, 2016 - PRLog -- 11 time-wasting habits that are hard to quit, but you'll be glad you did | Aine Cain, Uk.businessinsider.com

It's important to identify and drop harmful time-wasting tendencies before they seriously mess up your career.

Here are 11 awful time management habits that are tricky to quit — but you'll thank yourself once you do:

1. Multitasking
Contrary to what you might think, multitasking doesn't boost your productivity.
It's easy to trap yourself into this work style by convincing yourself that you're being hyper-efficient. However, the evidence just isn't there.

2. Procrastination
This is probably one of the hardest bad habits to quit, but it's possible to break free of procrastination's stranglehold on your precious time.

3. Neglecting deadlines
Flaunting deadlines is a terrible habit to get into. One of these days, you'll cross a deadline that really wasn't meant to be crossed. It's important to start managing your boss's expectations — or, you know, just start respecting deadlines.

4. Inability to streamline
In our chaotic, technology-heavy world, this is an easy trap to stumble into. It's crucial to make the effort to streamline your life a bit — otherwise, you risk becoming disorganized and discombobulated.

5. Never saying no
Try to stick up for your time and become less of a yes man. This can be difficult if you're a bit of a pushover, but it's necessary if you're going to fix your terrible time management habits.

6. Not setting goals
If you have no clue about your destination, you're probably just going to get yourself lost. It can a bit daunting to sit down and outline all this, but think of it this way: without short and long term goals, you have no foundation to build your schedule upon.

7. Failing to 'eat a frog'
No, eating an actual frog won't help your time management skills. This just refers to Mark Twain's famous quote: "Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day."

Eat your live frog first thing in the morning. Get all the tasks you've been dreading done first. That'll jump start your productivity for the rest of the day.

8. Forgetting that perfect if the enemy of good
Perfectionism is a hard tendency to drop, but it's important to realize that this is a trait that can kill, rather than boost, your career.

9. Burning yourself out
Burn out is terrible. Stop killing yourself trying to do everything and start focusing on doing a handful of things very well.

10. Failing to prioritize
Certain tasks are more deserving of your time and attention than others. Unless you're carefully ranking each item on your list, you risk lacking priorities throughout the day.

Lack of priorities puts you at risk for cutting through busy work while ignoring truly important projects.

11. Forgetting to write things down
You don't actually have to write things down on paper — using an app to manage your time is great too. You just need to find some way to hold yourself accountable and stay organized.

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