Example – Finishing the Whole Task

(Time to read: ~ 2 minutes)

I took my cat Midnight to the vet today. When we got home, I finished this whole task by covering four common aspects of many tasks:

1 – Products / Envirocare

• Put away the cat food and two medicines I’d bought from the vet, along with the bag I’d carried them in

2 – Receipts / Financial

• Put the receipts from the visit in my “Enter Receipts” file. They’ll be entered in my accounting system on the next scheduled date. (see note 1 below)

3 – Other Paperwork / Filing

• Filed the vaccination paperwork in Midnight’s “Official Records” file (see note 2 below)

4 – Time and Tasks

• Put my notes of the vet’s recommendations of things I change about my cat care routine in the “Midnight to the Vet” folder in my hardcopy to do system. Then I moved that file from today’s date to the beginning of June – the month in which the vet indicated I should bring the Midnight back for a checkup of a couple of things.
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• Updated my time recording system with the length of time the visit took, from the time I started packing up at home, through the visit, travelling home, and putting everything away. This will help me make more accurate time estimates of this in future.

I tend to do “time and tasks” items last, because they often require some level of thought and consideration. I find this easier to do in an orderly physical environment (achieved by addressing the other three areas first.

Is there anything in this example that highlights an aspect of tasks you’d like to include more consciously?

Note 1 – I might have chosen to enter the receipts in my accounting system immediately. And, at the moment for me, it is more time-efficient to do this data entry task with a weekly batch of receipts.

Note 2 – I could include this file in the “Midnight to the Vet” folder. And at the moment, because of its thickness, I’m choosing to store it separately, in the box with Midnight’s food.

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