These Suggestions will help you find time for the important things in life:
- Reduce paperwork
- Clearing your desk will help you focus on what's important
- Toss low priority paperwork and junk
- Handle every piece of paper once---do it then trash it
- Get an early start. Begin---and finish---your most essential work before everyone else arrives and the telephone starts ringing.
- Know your rhythms---Determine your most productive time and reserve it for prime projects.
- WIN---ask yourself What's Important Now and do the most important things first
- Reduce meeting time---meetings are the biggest waste of time in America.
- Have everyone stand at a meeting---they'll leave quicker
- Stick with the agenda
- Stop digressive talk
- Reduce the time for meetings---meetings tend to fill the time allotted for them
- Don't schedule or attend wasteful meetings
- Ten minutes after the meeting begins have someone call you and leave
- Delegate tasks that others can do
- Use transition time wisely---is texting or reading email the best use of waiting time?
- Reduce Facebook time
- Text less, talk more---texting in front of others is rude and narcissistic
- Keep email messages short---no more than one paragraph will do for most messages. (Ask yourself if you want everyone in the world to read this because they might.)
- Turn off the television---skip mind constricting programs.
- Rest and relax---relaxing restores energy and improves concentration enabling you to get more done faster. Breaking up your schedule with a 10 minute respite every 90 minutes improves efficiency. A lumberjack knows that the oak cuts faster when he takes time to sharpen the ax.
No comments:
Post a Comment