One of my favorite bloggers is Leo Babauta at Zen  Habits – his is a constant voice that reminds me about three times a week to just SLOW DOWN.

  His advice to work on just one thing until it’s done without multi-tasking can’t be repeated often enough.  His little gem of a book called The Power of Less: The Fine Art of Limiting Yourself to the Essentials … in Work and in Life is an easy guidebook to a saner, less stressful life. 

  Babauta suggests lots of Zen Habits that can help us find a simple, common sense and quiet way to live and work.  Here are some of them for work:

 

     1. Set your 3 MITs (most important tasks) each morning. 

     2. Single-task   Focus your attention on only one thing 

     3. Zero Inbox - don’t even think about it first thing in the morning. 

     4. Process emails once a day - preferably around lunch-time.  

     5. Work while disconnected - turn off IM, Twitter, cell phone, email 

     7. Keep your desk uncluttered. 

     8. Clear and declutter one drawer, file or space for 15 min each day 

     9. Limit email answers to 5 sentences - write what you mean 

   10. Say no to commitments not on your important short list 

   11. Follow a morning routine - gratitude and meditation -5 minutes    

 

The very talented Leonie Allan at Goddess Guidebook has created a fun colorful poster you can print out and hang up (or download the desktop wallpaper) to keep you in a Zen frame of mind.   Visit her website to get it here  

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