it's hard. Monday this week I managed to go through a whole day without ever starting Outlook, to avoid e-mails so I could work on a migration project. I sometimes think I should just come to work very late in the day and stay through most of the evening instead of work at the same time as everyone else. I liked this article, I thought it was bang on http://swizec.com/blog/why-programmers-work-at-night/swizec/3198 On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 8:28 PM, Oscar Ofiana <oj.ofiana@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Jeff, > > Have you checked out Randy Pausch's Time Management lecture? Some of the > ideas presented in it can be a little too detailed and time-consuming, but > the most helpful idea I picked up on was making the TODO quadrant, where > you seperate and prioritize tasks into: > 1 - Urgent and important > 2 - Important but not urgent > 3 - Urgent, not important > 4 - Not urgent, not important. > > Just having this grid on a post-it or on a pin-up board by my monitor > really helped to provide a general map of my tasks and what/when it needed > to be done. > > Hth, > Oscar > > > On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Jeff C <backseatdba@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Fellow DBA's, >> How do you manage your work load? I am not taking database work load but >> your project list. I don't know about you but I have my projects that I >> need to get done but I also constantly get interrupted by other developers >> asking questions, needing help with a query performance, or they mention >> some data they need from another database and I have to decided what is the >> best way to approach it. I rarely get my projects worked on. >> Do you have some system or tool you use to keep your head straight? I >> used to be the multitasker master but after 10 years and the growth of our >> environment, that is not easy anymore. >> >> Looking for any tips anybody might have. >> >> >> Thank you >> > > -- -- Patrice My profiles: [image: Facebook] <http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/profile.php?id=100000206805521>[image: LinkedIn] <http://ca.linkedin.com/pub/patrice-boivin/a/933/5a9>[image: Twitter] <http://www.twitter.com/PatriceBoivin> <http://www.twitter.com/PatriceBoivin> Signature powered by WiseStamp <http://www.wisestamp.com/email-install>