it won't get done at all.

I've just introduced this as a homeworker too. I get up at 6am when the house is asleep and do my best work then. I'm no work alcoholic though - I will more than likely reward myself with an hour off in my graveyard slot - late afternoon - a walk, a read, even a nap!.

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I) When is your most productive time of the day? Do you know? Are you an early morning person, getting your best work done before the office fills up? Do you work up to a peak by mid morning after you've settled in and got the junk of the way. Or are you a night bird, burning the mid-night oil to produce your best results? If you don't know it will benefit you immensely to find out. You can then exploit your most productive time to the hilt. Plan to do the most demanding tasks when you are at your best. Schedule those important but routine tasks when you are at your worst - the things that can be done on autopilot.

I discovered the hard way. I eventually found (to my surprise) that my best time was between 7am and 9am. For a long time I would be sat virtuously at my desk in the office often well before 7am. What did I use the time for? Catch up, clearing backlogs, emails, reviews, answering correspondence. The most boring but the least demanding tasks which could easily be pushed into my own personal graveyard slot. Eventually, I caught on and started to do the most important and urgent stuff at the start of the day. It got to the point almost that if it didn't get done before 9am then there was a massive chance it won't get done at all.

I've just introduced this as a homeworker too. I get up at 6am when the house is asleep and do my best work then. I'm no work alcoholic though - I will more than likely reward myself with an hour off in my graveyard slot - late afternoon - a walk, a read, even a nap!.

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r best results? If you don't know it will benefit you immensely to find out. You can then exploit your most productive time to the hilt. Plan to do the most demanding tasks when you are at your best. Schedule those important but routine tasks when you are at your worst - the things that can be done on autopilot.

I discovered the hard way. I eventually found (to my surprise) that my best time was between 7am and 9am. For a long time I would be sat virtuously at my desk in the office often well before 7am. What did I use the time for? Catch up, clearing backlogs, emails, reviews, answering correspondence. The most boring but the least demanding tasks which could easily be pushed into my own personal graveyard slot. Eventually, I caught on and started to do the most important and urgent stuff at the start of the day. It got to the point almost that if it didn't get done before 9am then there was a massive chance it won't get done at all.

I've just introduced this as a homeworker too. I get up at 6am when the house is asleep and do my best work then. I'm no work alcoholic though - I will more than likely reward myself with an hour off in my graveyard slot - late afternoon - a walk, a read, even a nap!.

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I discovered the hard way. I eventually found (to my surprise) that my best time was between 7am and 9am. For a long time I would be sat virtuously at my desk in the office often well before 7am. What did I use the time for? Catch up, clearing backlogs, emails, reviews, answering correspondence. The most boring but the least demanding tasks which could easily be pushed into my own personal graveyard slot. Eventually, I caught on and started to do the most important and urgent stuff at the start of the day. It got to the point almost that if it didn't get done before 9am then there was a massive chance it won't get done at all.

I've just introduced this as a homeworker too. I get up at 6am when the house is asleep and do my best work then. I'm no work alcoholic though - I will more than likely reward myself with an hour off in my graveyard slot - late afternoon - a walk, a read, even a nap!.

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he most boring but the least demanding tasks which could easily be pushed into my own personal graveyard slot. Eventually, I caught on and started to do the most important and urgent stuff at the start of the day. It got to the point almost that if it didn't get done before 9am then there was a massive chance it won't get done at all.

I've just introduced this as a homeworker too. I get up at 6am when the house is asleep and do my best work then. I'm no work alcoholic though - I will more than likely reward myself with an hour off in my graveyard slot - late afternoon - a walk, a read, even a nap!.

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it won't get done at all.

I've just introduced this as a homeworker too. I get up at 6am when the house is asleep and do my best work then. I'm no work alcoholic though - I will more than likely reward myself with an hour off in my graveyard slot - late afternoon - a walk, a read, even a nap!.

II)The 80/20 rule - make it work for you. The Pareto principle or the 80/20 rule simply says: 80% of consequences stem from 20% of the causes. For time management this can be viewed as getting 80% of your results from 20% of your work. But you know this don't you? Think about a typical day and how much time you spend on unproductive jobs, tasks that have nothing to show for them. Of course you do the valuable stuff too but I'll bet there's a good chance that this valuable stuff takes up a much smaller proportion of your time. And the very fact that it is valuable implies that it will probably produce results worth a lot more than the rest of the unproductive stuff put together. Imagine how life would be if you could turn on its head the 80/20 rule and spend 80% of your time on the things that really matter, that bear fruit, that are highly valued by you and your organisation.

The secret? Prioritise! Ask yourself constantly: Why am I doing this? What is the value? Challenge yourself: Am I doing this just because I enjoy it more than something else? Am I doing it because it is easy and I can't face the next big job? Always check out the alternatives: Can this be done by someone else? Does this need to be done at all? And remem