Whenever someone gets in a position where they are excelling or making good use of time we tend to say that “we’re in a zone”. A few days ago I was on a natural high. Work I had been pushing back from completing for over a month was finally getting done. I had penciled in 3 hours to get the work accomplished, but with the pace I was working at.. everything seemed to naturally be falling into place for me. It took me just under two and a half hours to get 5 websites created. Now bear in mind that I was using a Website generation tool, where all I had to do was get the index page customized to my liking and create images to use as logos. Pretty straight forward work, providing you knew what you were doing.
That night as I watched the latest installment of CSI Las Vegas I thought to myself… I hope I can mirror what I did today and finish up some more work that I’ve been contemplating doing. After-all I had done a lot of work earlier and there was a sense of accomplishment in the air.
Fast-forward 4 days later and it’s becoming apparent that all the work I did when I was in my “zone” contained several errors. Maybe I was too much in a rush to notice the errors at the time.
Here’s what I learned..
1. Take your time when working, leaves less room for errors.
2. Double check you work as you go along so you don’t have to redo anything
3. Triple check your work when you’re finished, in my case before I uploaded my newly completed websites to my server.
4. Don’t rely heavily on scripts and programs to get your work done accurately. A machine run script can only do what you input. See 1 and 2 again.
5. If possible have a second set of eyes double check your work for you.
6. Do use little tools such as a “Spell Check” feature to verify that you don’t make silly spelling errors.
7. Always remember to recheck for formatting so your entire project looks and feels uniform.
The next time I’m in my zone I’ll be sure to verify that what I did was done correctly so I don’t have to waste time correcting simple errors that could have been avoided or corrected before they became big errors.
Chris De La Rosa is a work from home dad who’s hobby is to blog about his enitre telecommuting expperiences. http://iloveworkingfromhome.blogspot.com/
