Focus on tasks

 When practicing multitasking its very easy to have nothing done at the end of the day. Also as we grow in career it is very essential that we don't get bogged down into a single focus area which means we are into a number of initiatives which require attention. The general guidance of prioritizing follows the 2 step approach. 

1. Break all the work we do into a simple 4 quadrant Urgent/important. Yeah everything has a 4 quadrant but this one is specially interesting because it shows a few key dimensions

• How much of the work on a daily basis is tactical vs strategic. Everything in urgent-important is tactical and in no-urgent-important is kind of strategic where we are preparing for future. 
• How much are we successful in delegating. How many tasks do we have which are urgent but not important and still we end up doing rather than finding a delegate. 
• How to say no to few things. These are the not-urgent and not-important ones

Very critical to frequently break our work into these four quadrants and keep analyzing the results.

2. For Urgent-Important use a wonderful tool called as "Pomodoro". This is a simple 25 minutes timer which helps focus into achieving a measurable outcome in 25mins. There are no ifs and buts in this task it is well cut out and the result is very clearly defined. We may need a Pomodoro to break an unclear area into clear tasks but very worth it.

Once you do Pomodoro, it is very startling to figure that something that can have progress in 25mins is so often procrastinated and never achieved. 

Further for "Not urgent, important" ones also reserve at least 2 Pomodoro's a day so that you can dwell on it and the back of the mind is working on it. 

Overall in a life busy with meetings, if we could achieve 4-6 Pomodoro's per day its a huge completion ratio.

Resurrecting my 30days blogging

 

Why?

Just to have a conversation with myself, jot down things rather than just keep my thoughts somewhere else

I will do this for 5mins daily and for the next 30days lets wait and watch the results

Default mode let me think of what will be the result, I will not do it this time around.

New word learnt today

* Sorry for being pedantic - Nit picky and very specific about smaller details. Amazing. I am in many cases so sounds good to use

Overall work wise got to a place where it is no longer a tech challenge done in a day it is much more than that and so on... 

The situations are pretty tense around the health of everyone, initially thought Covid is far let it not come in and then it keeps moving to city, ward, street, complex, block and so on and so forth have been defensive since beginning to avoid it and not sure how long more but getting very tense.

Overall not much of a support group around for my work and my next steps, man why do we always look for some support all the time. I preach you want to be told and here I am asking to be preached 

Mind is so disturbed does not have a single focus area, lot of small things to finish but alas what use

Lets target topic per day, lets blog about pomodoro technique tomorrow. 

November 11 - A busy Monday loaded with priority switches

Sports

Djoko to play Nadal my bet definitely on Djoko... to win this one.

Kyzoonga website hit by Sachin tirade, I noticed a person from Kyazoonga on the NDTV Social news just using the cloud word loosely. I am sure Kyzoonga is a bunch of servers but why not use the opportunity to say we are on cloud...

Why would Kyazoonga open up a website with no rate limiting...

Hectic Preperation

A day prior to visitors coming in and we are preparing crazy to make the slides. Hope the week goes smooth.

Credit/Debit Cards

So much of investments goes into changing all cards to have the chip. Further the point I hate the most Citibank wants to change my APIN as well, I have used APIN for 10years need to remember one more now...Got 3 cards delivered home in a single day looks crazy that so many cards are being shipped out...

November 10th - End of Federer's Rule in Indoor as well

Sports

Finally Nadal has taken over Federer in Indoor as well... Still Federer stays by far the best player in indoor Tennis courts. The lack of air and super swing of Federer makes it a party to watch. Classy Federer has no match in the current circuit in terms of the class of the game. 

Another Swiss coming up in the circuit and hope he keeps the swiss flag high for some more time in Tennis.

Driving

Got a chance to drive my car for a long duration today, getting more confident. Could get thru a steep road without stopping the car one kind of achievement to start with... 

Busy Week Ahead

Visitors all week around, looks like a final visit for all people before the thanks giving. Sure of a lot of hot meetings and hectic planning... Hope not to add more weight due to a lot of lunches.

November 9th 2013 - Watched Gravity

Sports

Federer back to form as he defeats Del Potro to enter masters semis... Looks like he is giving it his best shot towards the end of his career. Hope he can get over Nadal as well.

Boring day as West Indies managed to wrap up in 3 days. Not sure the CAB likes it nor does the Indian team, Indian team would definitely have liked 5days worth of practice. 

Movie

Watched Garvity, surprisingly how can a movie be successful with only 3 actors. That too the 3rd one's role is over in first 10mins. The other 2 show up their face in the last 30mins of the movie.Other than the 3D effects nothing really to boost about the movie, having watched a Hindi and Kannada movie in the past definitely not worth the run for the money... 

November 7th 2013 - The day when Mumbai Captain ruled

The Idea...

Capture daily happenings on a regular basis to capture frequent thoghts

Sports

On a day when lot was expected out of Sachin his Mumbai Captain stole the show... Always had confidence on Rohit's skill but attitude and temperament seems to have improved after taking over the captaincy for Mumbai... How often it is true that providing leadership opportunities changes the world for a person.

Federer wins against Gasquet in straight sets, was not in complete flow but still made it through...

Shopping

Had 2 sales people at a shopping center push hard for american tourister vs skybags, end of the day all of them seem so similar today. Size wise both offer 8 and 20KGs, both expandable, both with similar looks... How does a customer choose in such a environment at a given price point pretty much all brands are delivering the same quality. 

Working from Home

Very different thoughts and strong progress on some areas can be done with some dedicated lonely time... Also helps focus on longer term questions. However found teleconferences hard since can't see face expressions on a passionate technical discussion...