Do It Now
My late father had a bit of advice which I try to live by: "Do it now." When a new task comes to me, I try to do it immediately. This allows me to stay in the same flow of thought I had when I received the task. It lets me act upon fresh information and turn it into work-product that then serves as a memorial of the fresh information. By doing the task immediately, it helps me remember anything I just learned. It's such a waste of time to learn information, and then forget it. By doing it now, I retain more information and I make information actionable. Doing it now also shows a sense of urgency. I once needed to see a medical specialist, and their first availability was in three months. That didn't feel good, to be forced to wait a long time on something that for me was urgent. Client's legal matters are always urgent to them, and by doing it now, I show them that their case is also urgent to me. It prevents them from having the feeling that their lawyer doesn...