A Post-It a day keeps the stress away

We have to try and prioritise different tasks as to most important to "maybe that can wait till tomorrow".

In "Manage your day to day" book, Scott Belsky talks mostly on how to change your creative traits and adapt them to help your work flow more easily

Muscle memory

"It's better to disappoint a few and make others wait over small things, than to surrender your dreams for an empty inbox"

Belsky talks of how author Stephen King "triggers" his body into knowing its about to be creative by doing exactly the same routine every morning. As he makes a cup of tea, reads the paper between 8am and 8:30am, then takes a vitamin pill and sits in the same seat, same pen, same book and allows his body to trigger his mindset into his "creative zone"

The post-it theory.

Many people now use the "post-it" theory to adapt their work space. If your daily to-do list cannot be fitted onto a 3x3 post-it note, you cannot possibly complete that amount of work in one day. So in theory, if you change your to-do list into manageable chunks, it will make your life 10 times easier.

"a small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules" (Anthony Trollope)

The use of hard edges in your daily routine will help you to not burn yourself out. By creating a start time and an end time for tasks, it will help you spend the correct amount of time on each task and not to drag it out longer than need be. It also assists you on allowing smaller tasks to encroach on other important tasks needing to be complete.