Get Smart!: How to Think and Act Like the Most Successful and Highest-Paid People in Every Field
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| Time Management Tools The most powerful time management tool is a list. You start with your major goal or goals and then make checklists of everything you will need to do to achieve that goal. In your work, you begin with a list of everything you want to accomplish that day. Ideally, you should create your work list the night before, at the end of your workday. When you plan your day the night before, you are in reality setting a series of mini-goals for the following day. Writing it out in the evening allows your superconscious mind to work on your list of mini-goals while you sleep. You will often awake with ideas and insights that you can use to get more of your most important work done faster. If you were notable to make out a list the night before, the first thing you do in the morning, before anything, is to plan your day on paper. Make a list of everything you intend to accomplish that day. Refuse to do anything that you have not first written down on your list, not even a telephone call. The very act of working from a list will increase your productivity by percent the very first day. Don’t Check Your E-mail Discipline yourself to not check your email first thing in the morning. You can double and triple your productivity by breaking the addiction to electronic interruptions, especially email. Instead, resolve to check your email only twice per day, at 11:00 am. and at 3:00 pm. Turnoff the sound on your computer that alerts you to incoming emails. Do not allow yourself to become a slave to someone else randomly communicating with you on issues that inmost cases can wait until later, and even much later. Set Priorities on Your List Once you have prepared your list, your outline for the day, you set priorities on your list in three different ways before you begin working. This is another discipline or habit that can dramatically increase your productivity, performance, and output. First, apply the 80/20 rule to your daily tasks and activities. Remember that 80 percent of your results will come from 20 percent of the items on your list. If you have ten things to do in a day, two of those items will be worth more than the other eight put together. What are they? Download 0.86 Mb. Share with your friends:
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