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Start a Finishing Day
Four steps to completing more projects each week
Parkinson’s Law states that the work that we do stretches out or shrinks to the amount of time that we give it. I have learned that some projects never seem to get finished because we don’t give them a definite time limit. I have also found that by giving myself a specific day to complete tasks at the end of the week to “finish” my week’s work, I end up not procrastinating and get more done in my week.
I have started using Fridays as a day I call finish day. I use Friday morning as the time during my week when I focus on finishing projects that I started and have not yet completed.
Create a Plan
When I first started this idea of Finishing Day, I based it the last F on my acronym SOFF Finish. SOFF stands for Start, Organize, Focus and Finish.
Before I started finishing day, I found that I had tons of projects that I would start at the beginning of the week and then would stop doing because it was the end of the week and the following week, I had something else to start. So, I decided that I would take time on the last day of the week and finish something that I started.
The first step of this plan was to make a list of all those projects that I had lying around that lay unfinished. It was…