<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/afafd8f5-5fa1-41c9-8e9b-566c7a0d8132/0B6AF9F7-86D1-4E38-9B54-FE6579491109/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.qtask.com/public/blog/2009/09/23/when-you-cant-focus/" href="http://www.qtask.com/public/blog/2009/09/23/when-you-cant-focus/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.qtask.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.qtask.com/public/blog/2009/09/23/when-you-cant-focus/"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD colspan="2"><DIV id="post-385" class="post-385 post hentry category-collaboration category-projectmanagement category-tipsandtricks"> <H3><A class="blog-grey-link" rel="bookmark" href="http://www.qtask.com/public/blog/2009/09/23/when-you-cant-focus/">When You Can’t Focus</A></H3></DIV></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.qtask.com/public/blog/2009/09/23/when-you-cant-focus/"><P>It is a simple fact that you can’t always work at one-hundred percent. You might be the most dedicated project manager in the world, but there are still days when your brain goes into shutdown mode and your eyes seem to slide away from anything you try to tackle. How can you still contribute to the project when it feels like you can’t focus? In this post we look at tasks you can execute when focusing is not an option and we offer some ideas on how to get re-focused.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.qtask.com/public/blog/2009/09/23/when-you-cant-focus/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.qtask.com/img/91E5112E-E15D-4721-9E27-B211B15F16A6" alt="cant-focus" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.qtask.com/public/blog/2009/09/23/when-you-cant-focus/"><P>There may be useful things to do when your brain says “bye-bye” and seems to squeeze out of your ear, but prevention is better than a cure and there are many project tools which can help you stay on track. Especially when you’re involved in a group collaboration environment and any delays on your end will affect everyone else involved. Here we look at some task management tools which can help you stay focused even when you’d rather not:</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/0B6AF9F7-86D1-4E38-9B54-FE6579491109/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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