Routinize The Routine. The Things That Aren't

There Are People Who Literally Cannot Start A Project Until The Deadline Is Four Hours Away, Even If It's A Big One. And Those People Have A Serious Problem. My Recommendation Is Set Up Mini-deadlines. You Might Say, 'okay, Here's My Deadline After Three Days For This And There's Another Deadline For That And Then A Third Deadline.

The Night Before, Go Over Your Schedule And See What You're Going To Do And What The Purpose Of What You're Doing Is. I Advocate Having A Two-column Schedule. On The Left, Put Down All Your Appointments And Phone Calls. On The Right, Put Down What The Purpose Is.

The Most Important Thing Is To Talk To People That Have Jobs That You Might Like And To See What They Say The Job Involves.

It's 5 P.m. At The Office. Working Fast, You've Finished Your Tasks For The Day And Want To Go Home. But None Of Your Colleagues Have Left Yet, So You Stay Another Hour Or Two, Surfing The Web And Reading Your E-mails Again, So You Don't Come Off As A Slacker. It's An Unfortunate Reality That Efficiency Often Goes Unrewarded In The Workplace.

We Can't Count On The Fed To Inject This Level Of Liquidity That We Saw Last Year.