Do you start your day by doing the easiest task on your list or the hardest?
Ezgi Aydın
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I always do a slow start and do my easiest task first. What is your opinion on this?
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Boris Rieunier@borisr
For sure we all have différent levels of energy throughout the day. Most likely you will not be right away in it first half hour or After lunch.
Personally hours in the morning are my most productive one. Dépends on how you are organized and if you work alone.
For example I like to start my day early so that I Can Do deepwork before slack lights up like a christmas three 😁
Also I think its important not to make the mistake of having too much for a day in your todo. If you move task from one day to the next constantly might bé that you have too much not that you need to better organize. Can get you demotivated real fast!
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Couldn't agree with you more. Crossing of an item in my list gives me a satisfaction of being productive and to me it's the biggest self-motivator, especially, when it happens earlier in the day.
I first tackle the hardest tasks. As the day progresses I lose energy and motivation so I like to start out strong and finish gently 😊
Depends on the day. If I have the entire day free ahead of me, I pick the hardest task so that I can finish it that day. If I think I don't have enough time to complete a difficult task, then I pick easier ones. This way I at least manage to finish them :)
easiest. Always start my day by checking on my stats dashboards :)
Easy then hard! It gives a sense of accomplishment which encourages me to continue on.
Great one! I always recommend to start with a couple of less-than-2-minutes kind of tasks - for "warm-up" 😉 and then straight to the 1-2 big ones of today...
Hardest, need some extra energy more to be solved. lol
I'm most likely the type of person that starts right away with difficult tasks.
It depends on my mood. Sometimes I just need some time to procrastinate. But usually I do the hardest. Once I've read about Eat the Frog, I've stared to practice this and it's really productive practice. If you are not yet familiar with Eat the Frog method, just google it, it is really worthy.
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easy then hard 😅
That's the excellent way but you should learn how to start faster in a given task, I think.
Same, I usually start the day by listing all of the tasks I only want to focus on today, then start taking them out one by one with the easiest task to accomplish first followed by the ones that needed more focus & thinking.
"Worst first" always. Then I reward myself with my easy tasks late in the day. [I am a time management coach]
It depends on the task at hand. Sometimes it's necessary to start with the easiest tasks to build momentum. It's all about finding the right approach for each situation.
The priority one...based on submission time.
Hardest first.