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<blockquote data-quote="trinityroyal" data-source="post: 252524" data-attributes="member: 3907"><p>Mstang, I'm so sorry that you're struggling at work. Especially since you love your job.</p><p></p><p>I have a pretty bad dose of CRS myself, so I've come up with a number of strategies that help me stay on the straight and narrow. Thing is, I have to do them every day, otherwise things fall into a s*** bucket pretty quickly.</p><p></p><p>Hope they help:</p><p></p><p><strong>1) The notebook</strong></p><p>I keep a hard-bound notebook (like the kind people used to use in high school chemistry lab) and I carry it around with me everywhere I go at work. If I'm meeting with someone, or someone asks me to do something, I write it down. I make sure to label and date it, so that I know what the heck I'm looking at later.</p><p></p><p>Here are 2 examples from my current notebook:</p><p>Mar 6th, 2009</p><p>Dee's new contact info:</p><p>dee's-email@address.com</p><p>416-555-5555</p><p></p><p>Or:</p><p>Mar 9th, 2009</p><p>Action: Write report on Change Management strategy for each IT department. Due: March 24th.</p><p></p><p><strong>2) The to-do list</strong></p><p>Every morning, I get to work about 1/2 hour early, so that I have time to make my to-do list. I write the list in my notebook. This is actually the most important part. I used to write it on a sheet of note paper, but I was always losing the paper. In my notebook, it's always there. I may have to flip pages for 15 min to find it, but it's there.</p><p></p><p>I write the date and "To-Do List" at the top of the page.</p><p>I write a numbered list of everything I have to get done during the day, both work stuff and personal stuff. I just write in the order I remember it. I flip back through the notebook to the previous day's list, and copy everything I didn't finish onto my new list.</p><p></p><p>Throughout the day, as I finish tasks on my list, I put a check mark through the number with a red pen. If I have partially completed the task, but have more stuff to do on it, I circle the number. If the task is really important, and I should get to it before I do the other stuff on the list, I put a big red star beside the number.</p><p></p><p>I keep the notebook open to my To-Do List page, unless I am writing notes from a meeting or conversation or something. </p><p></p><p>When I use the last page in my notebook, I start a new one. I transcribe my latest To-Do list from the old notebook to the new notebook, and start the process again. I NEVER EVER throw away any of my old notebooks. I make sure to write the start date and end date on a sticker, which I slap on the front cover. All of my old notebooks live in the bottom drawer of my file cabinet. If I can't remember something, it's usually written down in there somewhere.</p><p></p><p><strong>3) The Posters</strong></p><p></p><p>If there's something I need to refer to regularly, I pin it to the wall at my desk. My cube at the office is made of that foam-core stuff that takes push pins really well. When I've had plaster or dry wall, I've used painters tape or sticky notes.</p><p></p><p>I reserve this only for things I really need to refer to. This way, I'm not wallpapering my work space with random stuff. Right now at my desk, I have an Inventory Definitions cheat sheet, a Phone list and an Org chart, because they all relate to the project I'm working on. When this project is over, they come down, and the reference stuff for my next project will go up.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Gosh. Writing it all down makes my system sound like it's a lot of tedious hard work. It's not really, just something I have to do to keep my brain functioning. Since I don't have the ability inside my head, I need to impose it from outside.</p><p></p><p>Carrying the notebook around becomes a habit pretty quickly. I even got a cute little slipcover for it with my name printed on the inside flap. That way, if (when) I leave it behind somewhere, whoever finds it knows it's mine and I can get it back. The to-do list thing has been my saviour. Just a few extra minutes in the morning saves me from an entire day of sitting at my desk muttering "what am I supposed to be doing now?"</p><p></p><p>I hope this is of use to you.</p><p></p><p>Trinity</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="trinityroyal, post: 252524, member: 3907"] Mstang, I'm so sorry that you're struggling at work. Especially since you love your job. I have a pretty bad dose of CRS myself, so I've come up with a number of strategies that help me stay on the straight and narrow. Thing is, I have to do them every day, otherwise things fall into a s*** bucket pretty quickly. Hope they help: [B]1) The notebook[/B] I keep a hard-bound notebook (like the kind people used to use in high school chemistry lab) and I carry it around with me everywhere I go at work. If I'm meeting with someone, or someone asks me to do something, I write it down. I make sure to label and date it, so that I know what the heck I'm looking at later. Here are 2 examples from my current notebook: Mar 6th, 2009 Dee's new contact info: dee's-email@address.com 416-555-5555 Or: Mar 9th, 2009 Action: Write report on Change Management strategy for each IT department. Due: March 24th. [B]2) The to-do list[/B] Every morning, I get to work about 1/2 hour early, so that I have time to make my to-do list. I write the list in my notebook. This is actually the most important part. I used to write it on a sheet of note paper, but I was always losing the paper. In my notebook, it's always there. I may have to flip pages for 15 min to find it, but it's there. I write the date and "To-Do List" at the top of the page. I write a numbered list of everything I have to get done during the day, both work stuff and personal stuff. I just write in the order I remember it. I flip back through the notebook to the previous day's list, and copy everything I didn't finish onto my new list. Throughout the day, as I finish tasks on my list, I put a check mark through the number with a red pen. If I have partially completed the task, but have more stuff to do on it, I circle the number. If the task is really important, and I should get to it before I do the other stuff on the list, I put a big red star beside the number. I keep the notebook open to my To-Do List page, unless I am writing notes from a meeting or conversation or something. When I use the last page in my notebook, I start a new one. I transcribe my latest To-Do list from the old notebook to the new notebook, and start the process again. I NEVER EVER throw away any of my old notebooks. I make sure to write the start date and end date on a sticker, which I slap on the front cover. All of my old notebooks live in the bottom drawer of my file cabinet. If I can't remember something, it's usually written down in there somewhere. [B]3) The Posters[/B] If there's something I need to refer to regularly, I pin it to the wall at my desk. My cube at the office is made of that foam-core stuff that takes push pins really well. When I've had plaster or dry wall, I've used painters tape or sticky notes. I reserve this only for things I really need to refer to. This way, I'm not wallpapering my work space with random stuff. Right now at my desk, I have an Inventory Definitions cheat sheet, a Phone list and an Org chart, because they all relate to the project I'm working on. When this project is over, they come down, and the reference stuff for my next project will go up. Gosh. Writing it all down makes my system sound like it's a lot of tedious hard work. It's not really, just something I have to do to keep my brain functioning. Since I don't have the ability inside my head, I need to impose it from outside. Carrying the notebook around becomes a habit pretty quickly. I even got a cute little slipcover for it with my name printed on the inside flap. That way, if (when) I leave it behind somewhere, whoever finds it knows it's mine and I can get it back. The to-do list thing has been my saviour. Just a few extra minutes in the morning saves me from an entire day of sitting at my desk muttering "what am I supposed to be doing now?" I hope this is of use to you. Trinity [/QUOTE]
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