Maximise your time at work so you can go home early, relax a bit more and spend time with loved ones See the original article at: http://www.theofficesuppliessupermarket.com/articles/want-to-go-home-early-today

1. Want to go home early today?

2. I know, we all love Facebook and we love how we can keep up with all
of our friends and relatives while they eat donuts while we’re
slaving away at work, but do we really need it?
The fact is, any distractions in the office can cause us to lose focus and
focus is the key to getting things done day in, day out.
Without focus our productivity will take a dive and when that happens,
all sorts of things can go wrong with our day. We may have to work
later. Oh no.

3. Maybe you love working late, I don’t. Some
people like to work until 7pm and even go to
the office on a Saturday. Nope, not me. 9-5 is
too much for me, I crave for flex-time where I
can leave when the job is done.
For example, Richard Branson just stated that Virgin will let their
employees take off as much time as they want
(http://bit.ly/Zbi5yz) now maybe that’s taking it a bit far, but how
about if you could finish early tonight just because you got
everything done you needed to do in super-quick time?

4. Let’s experiment
The key to not getting things done is distractions. It can be the
phone, Facebook, meetings, anything that essentially stops you
doing whatever it is you’re currently doing. Your flow gets
distracted when someone or something interrupts you and you
can’t get back into it.
Studies have shown that it can take 25 minutes to get going again
after you’ve had your focus interrupted. If that happens a few
times a day, you’re suddenly hours behind on your work.

5. SO, TRY THIS TODAY AND SEE HOW YOU GET ON.

6. Create a task list
No more than six items to get done today
and promise yourself that you’ll finish
when those are done. Put an estimated
time to complete next to each task.

7. Turn off emails, silence phone and close the office door
Make sure people know you’re not to be
disturbed.
Put an out of office reply on your email client
telling people you’ll reply to them later, but
you’re currently really busy. “Go dark” as Jack
Bower would say.

8. Get a kitchen timer
Yeah, you read that right! Use a kitchen
timer to time each task. The ticking
noise will give you urgency and you’ll
get more done in the time allocated.

9. Don’t stop or stray from the task
Does your task involve waiting a few for something
to download? Fine, let it and just wait. Savour
the time, don’t get distracted into checking
emails or Facebook. Before you know it you’ll
have wasted hours.

10. And that’s it!
Go home early having completed all your tasks,
you’ve deserved it!

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