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A Meditation on Time Management for Technical Writers


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(Excerpt)

Time management means being able to say “no”.

Whenever someone comes running to you saying “I need your help,” it’s automatically an emergency. You’re a team player, so you may say “Sure, I can help you with that” without thinking.

Stop.

Think.

Less obvious but more common is the failure to prioritize tasks. How many times have you worked on a diagram, tweaking and tuning and rearranging until you realize you’ve spent half a day on a picture that only reinforces existing text? Was that critical to the project? Hardly.

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  1. time management says

    Thanks for sharing. Very helpful.

  2. Anna Houck says

    Hi! Is there a form of meditation where I can increase my potential to retain when I’m reviewing my notes? Thanks!



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