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Kindergarten Planning Works: And Works Extraordinarily Well - Auto Recovery - Articles Surfing

Have you ever returned to your office after time away to find where you left off and what priorities you are working had escaped your memory?

I have. Too many times before I learned this...

Before I share the answer, come and experience my journey to the answer.

A year or so ago, I was returning after just taking Sunday off. That night, as I sat at home in my easy chair with my feet up and my review journal, I closed my eyes and remembered my day. Beginning from the time my feet hit the carpet to where I was now. It wasn't a productive day and my critic was trying to justify it away with, "Its okay, nobody has a productive day after coming back from vacation."

This was an eye opener for sure. I spent too much time fooling around with e-mails as I figured where I left off. During my review, I felt that lost feeling I was experiencing that morning that I kept pushing away.

A few days passed. Then another Monday and I began to experience this again. This time I knew it needed to STOP before I got deeper into the day. "But how" I asked myself. I sat quiet and listened.

"Index cards" my mind answered.

"Index cards?" "Oh, okay," my mind responded but just because there isn't something better coming up.

Kindergarten Planning Works: And Works Extraordinarily Well

By Catherine Franz

I went into the supply cabinet and pulled out a stack of index cards. Back at my desk, I sat staring at them. What's next? "Shhh...quiet...listen!" So, I did.

"Write one project on each card." I obeyed.

"Okay, what's next?"

"Wow, you sure are impatient!"

"Yep, my parents complaint too."

"An hour or before you leave for a vacation, or even a weekend, write down where you left off and what was your next step," was the next message.

"Okay, gottcha. But...but...but this seems so rudimentary. This feels like returning to kindergarten planning! I have all these other methods that do this."

"Shut up; wear your Nike*s, just do it."

And so I did. To my surprise it works. It works darn well too. In fact, I have given this suggestion to many clients. Yes, they too rolled their eyes because it seems so ridiculously simple.

I went on to use this on a daily basis. Every night before I went home I updated my index cards. I crossed out the previous message, no new cards until there wasn't any more room on the card, and wrote in the last thing I did on that project and the next step to begin with tomorrow. To this day, I continue this process and my productivity is always high. Yours will be too when you begin.

Submitted by:

Catherine Franz

Catherine Franz is a columnist, syndicated radio talk show host with multiple shows and producer of a communications television show.. http://www.abundancecenter.com and http://www.LetsTalkMarketingShow.com and http://www.LetsTalkCoachingShow.com



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