> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Whil Hentzen (Pro*) > Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 12:41 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [NF] Getting jump started - techniques... > > > A writer friend of mine says that he never stops work at the end of a > chapter, or even the end of a section. He stops right in the middle of > something that's flowing really well, because it's so much easier to > pick it back up and quickly get in the groove. > > What do you guys do? > > Whil >
Whil: Great question! This is especially a concern for those that work in their own office or at home. When you have a job you have peers and bosses peering to keep you in line. I've been working out of my home for sixteen years and have tried just about everything. In an attempt to learn from my own (and others') mistakes, I have something now that works for me. I heard (or read) a person that calls his system "pickle jar management". Imagine a pickle jar with big rocks, small and medium rocks all the way down to grains of sand. Every time you get a task - in my case it could be business or personal - place it in the pickle jar. Its size is based on both effort and importance. A yellow lined pad is my "pickle jar". I make absolutely sure I write down everything I have to do. I get a call from a customer or and email that contains something I need to do, I write it down. Each morning I start pulling the biggest rocks from my pickle jar. Once I get down so far and don't have enough time left in the day to pull out another stone, I go to work on Dabo, PostGreSQL or some other long term project that requires quiet time. The one other thing I do is keep my reference books in the bathroom. Currently there are a couple of Python books in there. My day starts at 7:30 and ends at 6:00 and I don't do any work outside of my work day due to family and self obligations. Of course the reading could start earlier and end later. ;^) Jeff Jeff Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] 623-582-0323 Fax 623-869-0675 --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/signed text/plain (text body -- kept) application/x-pkcs7-signature --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
