Tips 2-5: Change the Way You Think About Time
Stop Thinking Of Time As An Unlimited Commodity
Create A Time Map
Set office hours: Say,8 a.m. to 5 p.m. If you like to jog or eat a leisurely breakfast, wake up earlyso that you can be ready to hit it by 8.
Divide your day into three parts: An example would beserving existing clients, marketing for new clients and taking care ofadministrative tasks. If you feel you have all day to do all things, you’ll beless productive.
Keep a schedule:For example, devote 8 a.m. tonoon to existing customers, 12:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. to marketing, and 4 p.m. to 5p.m. to tasks such as printing invoices and updating your contacts list. Lookat it this way: In the morning, you’re working to make money. In the afternoon,you’re selling your business.
Dedicate 10 or 15 minutes at the end of each day toplanning: Specifically think about what you will do in each of the threeparts of the next day. Break projects into small steps: One morning can bedevoted to polishing up Project A and getting halfway done with Project B.
Create three-day plans: Once you get used to planninga day ahead, start looking further down the road and update those plans at theend of each workday.
Group Similar Tasks
Don’t Write To-Dos In A Million Places
Stop Thinking Of Time As An Unlimited Commodity
Create A Time Map
Set office hours: Say,8 a.m. to 5 p.m. If you like to jog or eat a leisurely breakfast, wake up earlyso that you can be ready to hit it by 8.
Divide your day into three parts: An example would beserving existing clients, marketing for new clients and taking care ofadministrative tasks. If you feel you have all day to do all things, you’ll beless productive.
Keep a schedule:For example, devote 8 a.m. tonoon to existing customers, 12:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. to marketing, and 4 p.m. to 5p.m. to tasks such as printing invoices and updating your contacts list. Lookat it this way: In the morning, you’re working to make money. In the afternoon,you’re selling your business.
Dedicate 10 or 15 minutes at the end of each day toplanning: Specifically think about what you will do in each of the threeparts of the next day. Break projects into small steps: One morning can bedevoted to polishing up Project A and getting halfway done with Project B.
Create three-day plans: Once you get used to planninga day ahead, start looking further down the road and update those plans at theend of each workday.
Group Similar Tasks
Don’t Write To-Dos In A Million Places
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