This is Stevea Robbins.

Welcome to the Get It Done Guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

It's the 21st century.

Woo-hoo!

Being the future, we've augmented our brains with amazing technology that lets us multitask and be super productive on a dozen things at once.

Ha ha.

Just kidding.

Actually, if you multitask, it will turn your brain to mush,

and it will make you unable to perform even simple mental tasks.

But since the first thing to go is your ability to assess your productivity,

you'll feel great while your abilities descend to the level of a flat worm.

That doesn't change the fact that we have multiple projects going on, however,

or several goals to hit it once. So with only one attention span, we need to decide what to work on

next. Usually, that means focusing on what seems the most urgent at the time. And we usually

define urgent as needs to be finished soon enough. But if that's your definition of

urgent, it won't quite work. It doesn't take into account projects that need more time to finish,

and as a result, choosing the task with the earliest deadline to cover first may be keeping you

from hitting other deadlines on time. There's a better way.

Instead of using the soonest deadline to prioritize,

focus on what needs to be started the soonest.

In order to know what needs to be started the soonest,

you need to figure out lead times.

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