Sentences with phrase «work on a single task»

It requires setting a timer (I just use my iPhone) for 25 minutes and working on a single task without distraction for those 25 minutes, followed by a 3 - 5 minute break (when I'll let Rory outside, refill my water, or take a Pinterest break).

Of course, when you're working on a single task, you want to avoid distractions.

Instead of time - blocking, you may prefer the Pomodoro Technique, which promotes working on a single task for 25 minutes, then taking a five - minute break.

Not exact matches

Creating a single calendar to work from, not multiple sets for individual tasks or jobs, will also ensure that jobs are completed on schedule and appointments kept.

When you work on a single document with a team, you can assign tasks to other team members by adding a comment.

I value the notion that you need to focus your attention on single tasks and avoid the temptation to multi-task, manage the duration spent on tasks and consider the time spent resting to be as just important (and productive) as the time spent working.

While each group focuses on a particular threatened plant or animal, Brackett has the Herculean task of bringing their work together to underline and spread a single message — that today's extinction crisis is a global responsibility.

«Movie research results: Multitasking overloads the brain: The brain works most efficiently when it can focus on a single task for a longer period of time.»

A single - minded group might be confined to work on a specific task that in a changed environment may no longer be productive.

Even if you don't have a single, focused task to work on, working continuously for a set, pre-determined time (rather than flipping back and forth from email to instant messages to reading your favorite blogs) can help you keep your head in the game.

Internet eliminates the need to go on the search for people dating singles or someone at school or work to make woman looking man and this is no easy task in today's hectic world.

Narrowing down who's gay and who's single on your own can be a daunting task, and Grindr has most certainly taken the work off your shoulders.

Others may not even have the study skills to sustain concentration on a single task (e.g., collecting sources, or reading and re-reading their own work to check for errors).

It would seem a daunting task to write an entire book based on a single photograph, but author Louis P. Masur is equal to the challenge in his latest work, The Soiling of Old Glory.

It's possible to work through some sequences on a single spreadsheet, but the task can become surprisingly difficult as the number of transactions increases.

And it's these skills — to focus single - mindedly on a task, to detect even the faintest of scents and to determinedly hunt out its prey — that make the breed such a reliable and valuable working animal to police forces worldwide.

Pet sitters can be more expensive than any of the single task animal caretakers that were mentioned before, however, they do much more work and give pets one - on - one attention.

Rather than having one team work on both campaigns for the game, they decided that the developers formerly known as EA LA, Danger Close, would spend their time and resources on single - player while DICE, of Battlefield fame, would take to task on the multiplayer mode, which is their coup de grace.

When Tim joined the team, his first task was to begin working on single - player maps.

The number of tabs has been reduced to two — Tasks, with all functions related to working with multiple documents, and Tools, with all functions related to working on a single document.

It was decided that electronic invoice time entries should be task - based and aggregated by type of work performed, resulting in the possibility that multiple time entries could result from the services performed in a single day on a matter.

For example, fellows may work in a single area, gaining expertise in a particular task, or be deployed more broadly through the legal department, either on a rotation or project - by - project basis.

Ahead of last Friday's launch of the new Retina MacBook, we saw several early benchmarks for the entry - level notebook running a 1.1 GHz Intel Core M processor, putting CPU performance for the new machine roughly on par with the 2011 MacBook Air according to Geekbench.With the machines now available for purchase, we're starting to see Geekbench results for the mid-range 1.2 GHz processor, revealing a significant performance boost over the low - end chip for multi-core benchmarks, but less so for single - core testing.It will take a little while for Geekbench results to firm up as the machines work through their early housekeeping tasks, but the best results we're seeing so far for the 1.2 GHz model are approaching 2600 on 64 - bit single - core tests and over 5300 on multi-core tests.

Like «I never bother about time while working in office, that's why my family keeps waiting for me» or «I never compromise on quality no matter how many times I have to try and repeat a single task».

Further research on employees who experienced layoffs that had nothing to do with their performance found that flexibility, a willingness to try new tasks and learn new skills, was the single best predictor of how long people stayed unemployed — especially important with today's over nine million people out of work and six job seekers for every available job.

Professional Experience Marine Corps Network Operations Security Center (Quantico, VA) 12/2008 — Present Information Technology Project Manager • Serve as Project Manager responsible for Network Enterprise Services strategic plans and process development • Tasked with the engineering and design of enterprise services for the largest IT project facing the Marine Corps • Oversee project acceptance, manage third party contractor relations, identify requirement gaps, evaluate integration requirements, document solutions, and facilitate the turnover to the operations group • Administer email messaging system, active directory infrastructure, storage area networks, and virtual server infrastructure • Additional systems of responsibility include DMS (Defense Messaging System), DAR (Data at Rest, Guardian Edge's enterprise encryption), HBSS (Host Based Security System), MOSS 2003/2007 (Microsoft SharePoint), SCOM (System Center Operations Manager, Enterprise Event Monitoring) • Provide full time Tier II & III Help Desk Support for the ~ 50,000 users in both the classified and unclassified networks • Directly manage subordinate IT supervisors determining workflow and ensuring efficient and effective operations • Serve as a member of external boards, committees and working groups representing the USMC and the MCNOSC • Champion the MCNOSC's adoption of the ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) processes, implement the MCNOSC's Change Management Process, and establish the first enterprise level Change Management Approval Board • Serve as Project Manager during the Marine Corps first implementation of HBSS on the classified and unclassified networks • Responsible for the Marine Corps» Network Consolidation of the SIPRNet involving the collapsing over 36 separate Active Directory Domains into one forest and a single domain structure and the migration of over 300 servers and every workstation on the USMC SIPRNet