Organization and Tough Mental Tasks BY FERN RICHARDSON MBA PHEC
We can do some things pretty much on auto pilot. Then Aim to do your most important work early in the day when your willpower is strongest. Be consistent with work breaks. Some there is the work that requires sustained, intense mental time away from the tough task can allow your unconscious to energy. How can you stay focused on challenging mental wrestle with the information. Often, after changing tasks for a few work and still avoid mental fatigue? One way is to reduce the minutes or taking a break, the obvious brain’s perception of the effort needanswer magically appears. ed. Whenever possible match your How you view the amount of effort rebest mental self with tough mental quired for the job seems to matter most. tasks and challenges in your day. “Step back, take an If you allow yourself to feel overwhelmed You are more likely to procrastiobjective look at the by a task you may be imagining it as nate and even quit the tough task harder than it actually is. Step back, take tough task and then early if you must make multiple an objective look at the tough task and decisions before getting to the break it down into then break it down into smaller bites. tough task. Do yourself a favour and smaller bites.” Bring your effectiveness “A game” routinize your low priority items and to the completion of tough mental unimportant tasks. This eliminates tasks. Save your brainpower for imthe need to use precious mental portant decisions, do tough tasks energy on less important things. For early in the day, take breaks to recharge and break the big example, pick out what you’ll wear to work the night before task down into smaller-sized chunks. and on workday mornings plan to eat the same healthy breakfast every day. This saves your all-important mental Fern, is a speaker at GISC 2021 Virtual, please check out their session live or on-demand with an event registration. energy for high priority decisions.
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