Have you ever sat down at your laptop to take care of a task, big or small, only to find yourself five minutes later checking a social media account, Googling a term, or my personal favorite organizing your calendar?
Since we can't go more than 2 kilometers away from the dome, a day off, a true day without a major commitment to answer emails or take care of a task for mission control, is about the most we could hope for.
The surest way to get over procrastination is to take care of a task as soon as you think of it - don't delay and tell yourself you'll do it later.
Re "Updating a Paperback Heroine: Can Mary Higgins Clark Lure Her Faithful to E-Books?" (Business Day, May 22): The other night, while doing paperwork, checking my children's homework and taking care of a myriad of routine tasks, I happened to glance at a bookcase in the room.
Working and taking care of a child is a daunting task, and it's tiring, and it can be overwhelming.
Nonetheless, recent experience and mounting research suggest that we may just now be seeing the outlines of a genuine expansion in capabilities one with important implications for solving the most enigmatic problems, which might go unsolved if kept inside companies, and for taking care of a number of more-categorizable tasks.
Students were tasked with taking care of an actual baby, sourced through an orphanage, in accordance to the latest in scientific theories of child rearing.
"Nine out of 10 man hours are spent on the logistics--mailing out your bills, making sure subscribers are taken care of". The large task of putting out a magazine, especially a specialist one with a small profit margin, must necessarily be a labor of love--and sometimes a matter of braving its opposite.
Her sister takes care of a "number of tasks" when her full time assistant has time off to spend off with her daughter, said Kirkbride.
If all you do is take care of a few simple tasks, at least they will be out of the way some other day when you have more energy or focus.
