A Five Step Process to take control of your mundane routine tasks

In a previous post, “Why your routine tasks make a difference….and why they will never be important” I gave a definition of what routine tasks and the role they play in your overall productivity and effectiveness. Given that, we can draw the conclusion that we need to manage the routine tasks well and so here are some tips and a five step process to take control of your mundane routine tasks.

Why do you need to manage them well?

You might say that I made this point in the above post and that is right, to an extent. But I wanted to be clear that in my head there are 3 reasons to manage these things well.

You need to keep on top of them to prevent problems from building up and them holing you beneath the water line.

If you don’t keep on top of ‘filing’ eventually your productivity is hampered. You can’t find what you need and every task that requires this takes 3 times as long.

These tasks are never going to be your big impact tasks and so we need to manage them well to prevent them taking over.

If you find yourself consistently not getting the big impact things done in favour of these maintenance tasks, this is a problem. Most commonly this will happen out of a desire to ‘clear the decks’ before you…