Beware: Keeping multiple to-do lists scattered about will make you feel buried and burdened. Maintain just one comprehensive list and update it two or three times a day.- Better yet, assign a time period to each item on the list. That will help you group related projects during, say, 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. when it's quiet and you can concentrate on more cerebral tasks.
- Protect your time from waste. Flee meetings as soon as you can. If you let artificial schedules dictate your day (i.e., you always stay for the entire hour of a regular meeting even though the last 30 minutes is irrelevant to you and no one requires your presence), your time squeeze will only worsen.
