Part 8 in a series of Internet Marketing videos featuring David Congreave and his assistant Beth Rudkin. This week David explains how to manage a busy workload, without subjecting yourself to a caffeine induced coma.
To ask David and Beth an Internet Marketing question, send an email to video@davidcongreave.com
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DAVID
Hi I’m David Congreave and this is my assistant, Bethany Rudkin.
DAVID
What is wrong with you?
BETHANY
Nothing. Nothing. Nothing.
DAVID
Nothing?
DAVID
You’ve overdone it on the coffee again, haven’t you?
BETHANY
No, I’m just excited to be at work.
BETHANY
Yeah, that was a bit of a long shot wasn’t it?
DAVID
I’m sure we’ve had this conversation before. Limit yourself to six cups of coffee before lunch and then switch to decaf.
BETHANY
I’m sorry, I’ve just got lots to do and I work faster with a little caffeine in my system.
DAVID
A little caffeine, yes. You look like you’ve consumed an entire pot.
BETHANY
So what do you suggest?
DAVID
Well a simple idea is to make a list of the jobs you want to do and then order them in terms of preference. So the jobs you find the least interesting at one end, and the jobs you enjoy the most at the other. Then work your way through the list, starting with the job you least want to do.
BETHANY
But I don’t want to do the jobs I don’t want to do, cuz I don’t want to do them.
DAVID
Well what tends to happen is that you work quickly on the jobs you don’t enjoy to get them out of the way, and to get to the jobs you enjoy doing. You’ll find the list gets completed faster, and you’re less likely to end up putting off jobs you don’t want to do until tomorrow.
BETHANY
That’s good. Any other tips?
DAVID
You could stop bunking off work to go on YouTube to watch LOLcats.
DAVID
Yeah, that was a bit of a long shot wasn’t it?
BETHANY
I think so.
DAVID
Well, if you’re really insistent on using caffeine, you can get it into your system faster by eating caffeinated sweets.
BETHANY
Excellent.
DAVID
Hmm. Maybe not. As Bethany has ably demonstrated, caffeine is no substitute for good time management. See you next week.
DAVID
OK Beth, you can get up now. Beth?
DAVID
Can you call emergency services again?
