Tips to complete a task

The following post has been taken from: SuccessMuslims

You might be preparing for a job interview, trying finish off your school assignment or office task, or working on a big project of yours. You find it very difficult to sit and complete your tasks.

You are looking for some technique you can apply to help you focus and complete your tasks.

“Slot-Split Technique” is an amazing technique to get you complete your tasks at hand. You can use the “Slot-Technique” whenever you are working to do something big and need some technique to focus your mind, and get things done.

To use the technique, first you split your time into slots.

The slot can be “30 min” or “one hour” - not more than that. 

Your goal is to decide - “I am going to work for 2 slots on my project today” - “I will do one slot in the morning and one slot in the evening”. You decide your slots, your only goal is to work for that slot.

When I do this technique, I have a stop watch which I will ON at the beginning of the slot, and I keep an eye on the stopwatch as I continue with my tasks. 

It is quite astonishing that how much I can do within this small slot period - which I wouldn’t have done otherwise.

1) Before Slot session questions.  

Do you really want to achieve this in your life?

Are you doing this for your good and interest ? 

If answer is YES, go to step 2. Else quit the action for ever.

2) Projecting your self to future.

Now, that you know you are doing it for your self, think in your mind what you will get if you actually do. Think about the happiness that will come to your life. 

What all you will get if you achieve this goal. Does this excite you ? 

Look the future and decide on the present.

3) Pick up the slot-time.

Once this is done, you need to choose the slot for your task. 

If you choose “30 min” as one slot - you have 25 min of task time, and 5 min break.

If you choose 1 hour as your slot, you have 50 min as task time, and 10 min break time (During break time, you can do anything you want, just that you continue with your slot after the alloted time).

4) Make your environment ready for you.

Clean your room at home or your desk at work. 

Turn off your distractions.Keep you mobile phone away from you. 

You are going to spent your next few hours working in your most precious goal.

You are going to begin an important journey today - and let you room and desk reflect that.

5) Pick up one “Goal” for the moment. 

Take one “tasks” you can accomplish “NOW” - and write it down in a paper in front of you along with the slot time.

6) Begin your Journey and Finish what you start. 

Just go ahead, and begin your task. There is no distraction. No other stuffs. 

Just you and your goal for the next “N” slot hours.

Get up only after your finished the tasks you have put.  

Don’t “multi-task” during your slot period (ie, Don’t do other tasks at the same time of your slot). 

If you start something, finish it.  Think something you can do about your goal; and just do it till you have “completed what you have started”

We can remember : ”Success will not wait. If I delay, she will become betrothed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the man “ - Og Madino.


Summary in one sentence : “Pick up your slot, Just Take Action - Don’t think anything else”