Chunking – love it with a capital ‘L’ – over the last year I did this with email (unless a call from a client came in about an urgent issue) – morning & afternoon. That’s it. Don’t look at the Inbox unless it’s at that time.

And this can be applied to every other area of your work also.

Workspace – well, this is unfortunately where my lovely Windows 7 falls down compared to Ubuntu. Workspaces on Windows don’t really seem to exist unless you throw in a 3rd party thang. Compare that to my 2 Ubuntu machines and I’ve got 6 workspaces on one of them – perfect for grouping tasks / programs related to each other on the same page.

Regarding 7 – Learn to Delegate – I’d say that everyone is wrong on this. You are right – we all think we’re the best at what we do. But we’re not. Simple. There is always someone who is better at what you do than you are. Find them. Pay them. Build the relationship.

Social Networking. Don’t do it. Hate Facebook. Twitter is a bunch of Sh***. I like faces.

Music – now this is an interesting one for me. It may be my Male-focussed-I-can-only-see-the-deer-when-its-running-and-nothing-else-because-of-evolution-brain, but when I’m learning something new, or trying to concentrate, there’s no way I can listent to chunes. However, once I feel I ‘know the ropes’ – totally different. Music then helps a lot for some reason. I’ve had a great time recently doing stuff that used to be brain-ache-central, but is now easy, and listening to stuff like Bloc Party at the same time. Felt really good.

Many Thanks,
Darren.

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