Four to eight daily tasks I do daily are showering, eating, getting ready for work, completing homework, studying, chores, and sleeping. How I might use the quadratic pass method from the video to manage these tasks better is by evaluating tasks that require longer than one hour to complete such as chores and sleeping. By minimizing interruptions, I can complete tasks more quickly. I would rank these tasks in order of importance as sleeping, eating, getting ready for work, studying, homework, chores, and showering. I rank them as if I am completing them as priorities rather than what I am doing that could be considered just busy.

It would make sense to do my daily task in order of convenience because you never know what pops up in life. I learned a long time ago that I use to complete tasks, like checking my email, to keep busy rather than achieving a small goal. So, now I evaluate my task as such to make sure I am occupying my time with meaning instead of letting it pass by like it does when checking my email and not obtaining a substantial outcome. If I were to complete my task randomly or out of chronological order, I would find myself backtracking since a lot of my tasks go hand and hand. If I were to sleep second to last on my list, then I would be too tired to complete all the other tasks at hand.

Your boss is convinced you must first rank your daily tasks in order of importance to be most efficient. You would like to convince your boss otherwise by using your classmate's data.

• How many tasks did your classmate propose? Choose a time between 30 and 90 minutes that each task will take.
• If each task takes the same amount of time, calculate your total time to complete the workload.
• Then, look at your classmate's response for Paragraph 2 in which the quadratic pass method was used. How much longer will the list of tasks take if this method was used?
• Use this information to write a 1-paragraph memo to your boss to justify why the ranking of tasks should not be used.
• Explain how the company would benefit by using your method instead.