Strange how much easier it is to plan next semester‘s course than to just finishing this week‘s grading. I was just giving myself a few minutes of surfing, honestly, just a moment, you know, only then I thought I’d just ever-so-quickly try to set up Liz Lawley’s MT courseware, and lo and behold it all worked and was really easy so of course then I had to start filling it with content and translating it into Norwegian and… I shouldn’t even admit that. My current students will start emailing me in protest. I promise, students, I’ll get a move on! Really!
I once heard a successful administrator announce his rules for getting things done in an after dinner speech. The rules went something like this:
- When you get to work in the morning, start by doing the thing you least want to do.
- Keep going.
- By doing this you’ll probably already have covered whatever has the shortest deadline but if not, do that now.
- Go home. Reboot.
I might have that wrong. Maybe it was do the dreaded thing first then do the things that have to be finished now. I wonder whether it’d work
steve
Ha! I spent last night working on my fall syllabus and playing with Liz Lawley’s courseware, instead of finishing the final work of the semester.
nick
When you get to work in the morning, start by doing the thing you least want to do.
I used to do that, until that sort of behavior conditioned me not to go into work anymore.
Jill
See, I knew there was a reason to not follow this advice!
J. Nathan Matias
Could work avoidance be a scheduling system itself? It seems to me that plenty of work happens during it, when channeled properly.
Norman
A careful selection of ancestors, combined with a little luck in which of them supplies the relevant DNA, can overcome all such problems.