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Added for You - Time Management and Productivity: If You Are Too Busy to Have Time to Spare, You Need to Read This
Have you ever asked a question that saved you money?Here's an example that could help with your business.When we bought new windows for our home one of the technicians cracked five of the tiles on our roof. I called the company that installed the roof a few years earlier and their representative told me that it would cost about $150 to replace the broken tiles.Then I called the window company to ask them to pay for the repairs. Their representative told
Of course how you plan to spend your time will always be upset by the reality of customers calling, staff needing help and stuff happening. The value of a good plan is in your ability to re-plan. I suggest that a major element in successfully managing your time is to know the priority that you place on your activities now. So on that list of "to do" activities, rank them from first priority down to tenth priority. Then as new items come in, you can decide where they fit into your ranking.
I have yet to hear of anyone who on their deathbed has said, "I wish I had spent more time at work". So I coach my clients using the 'wheel of life' to help them balance
%u201CAnd when the men of that place recognized Jesus, they sent word to all the surrounding country. People brought all their sick to Him and begged Him to let the sick just touch the edge of His cloak, and all who touched Him were healed.%u201D (Matt. 14:36 NIV).Virtue Flows Through An Abiding HeartVirtue flows out of your abiding habitation with Me, healing memories from days gone by, severing every hindering tie that binds. They
This makes management of your time a vital business skill (and habit) that you need to learn. I teach my clients to manage their diaries and work plans in four simple steps that they can choose to implement on a daily, weekly or monthly cycle as suits their industry and personality.
Decide what not to do
Firstly, sit down and list the 20 things you are doing. Remembering to give yourself permission ‘not to be perfect’, read down your list and eliminate the 10 activities that deliver the least value to your business.
Depending on their nature, either delegate these low-value activities or stop doing them altogether. Having chopped out your "To-Don'ts", you now have time for the remaining "To-Dos" and you can focus on adding value to your business.
Bite off sufficient to chew
Where you have a big task to do, don’t treat it as an elephant to be eaten in one meal. Instead break your elephantine task into five, smaller components, each with a defined end-point or deliverable outcome.
Now you can set a priority on each part and estimate the resources and time you need to digest that component of the elephant. As you achieve each milestone, you can reward yourself and be encouraged by your visible progress.
Sweep the small stuff together
If you have a morass of small daily actions that drown you, manage them as clustered items. Try to do your photocopying in 20-minute chunks, to make your phone calls in half-hour sessions, read your mail in 40-minute slots and to file your papers in 15-minute intervals. Set your own durations for these clustered items long enough to achieve satisfaction but not so long as to get jaded.
When you deal with your mail and email, make your actions immediate: delete dead files, mark your decision on short papers, pile up longer papers for a future reading period, relay decisions for other to act, and mark appointments and future notes in your diary.
Some activities can be condensed into specific times of the day that match your body clock: have a quiet time for reading major documents, fix a "go for" time to do errands, get stationery and make small purchases and agree a 'walk about' schedule when you can visit your staff.
Get your priorities right
Of course how you plan to spend your time will always be upset by the reality of customers calling, staff needing help and stuff happening. The value of a good plan is in your ability to re-plan. I suggest that a major element in successfully managing your time is to know the priority that you place on your activities now. So on that list of "to do" activities, rank them from first priority down to tenth priority. Then as new items come in, you can decide where they fit into your ranking.
I have yet to hear of anyone who on their deathbed has said, "I wish I had spent more time at work". So I coach my clients using the 'wheel of life' to help them balance
Most business people will tell you that selling is not their favorite activity. Let’s explore a way to look at the process of sales a bit more favorably.Whether we like it or not---“we’re all in sales”. Most of us have an internal dialogue about both selling and closing that is less than positive. Most of us approach the sales portion of our business hoping we’re not “coming off like a salesman”.Most of us hate to be sold to. Most of us have to sell to live.
Decide what not to do
Firstly, sit down and list the 20 things you are doing. Remembering to give yourself permission ‘not to be perfect’, read down your list and eliminate the 10 activities that deliver the least value to your business.
Depending on their nature, either delegate these low-value activities or stop doing them altogether. Having chopped out your "To-Don'ts", you now have time for the remaining "To-Dos" and you can focus on adding value to your business.
Bite off sufficient to chew
Where you have a big task to do, don’t treat it as an elephant to be eaten in one meal. Instead break your elephantine task into five, smaller components, each with a defined end-point or deliverable outcome.
Now you can set a priority on each part and estimate the resources and time you need to digest that component of the elephant. As you achieve each milestone, you can reward yourself and be encouraged by your visible progress.
Sweep the small stuff together
If you have a morass of small daily actions that drown you, manage them as clustered items. Try to do your photocopying in 20-minute chunks, to make your phone calls in half-hour sessions, read your mail in 40-minute slots and to file your papers in 15-minute intervals. Set your own durations for these clustered items long enough to achieve satisfaction but not so long as to get jaded.
When you deal with your mail and email, make your actions immediate: delete dead files, mark your decision on short papers, pile up longer papers for a future reading period, relay decisions for other to act, and mark appointments and future notes in your diary.
Some activities can be condensed into specific times of the day that match your body clock: have a quiet time for reading major documents, fix a "go for" time to do errands, get stationery and make small purchases and agree a 'walk about' schedule when you can visit your staff.
Get your priorities right
Of course how you plan to spend your time will always be upset by the reality of customers calling, staff needing help and stuff happening. The value of a good plan is in your ability to re-plan. I suggest that a major element in successfully managing your time is to know the priority that you place on your activities now. So on that list of "to do" activities, rank them from first priority down to tenth priority. Then as new items come in, you can decide where they fit into your ranking.
I have yet to hear of anyone who on their deathbed has said, "I wish I had spent more time at work". So I coach my clients using the 'wheel of life' to help them balance
Throughout the ages, virtually every society has valued its storytellers. Ancient civilizations would rely on the village elders to tell stories to the young children in order to pass along the community’s history and tribal knowledge. Stories were also used to train the youngsters for hunting and to face challenges related to survival in the wild.We continue to place a premium on people who have the ability to tell a story - even thousands of years later. Television
Now you can set a priority on each part and estimate the resources and time you need to digest that component of the elephant. As you achieve each milestone, you can reward yourself and be encouraged by your visible progress.
Sweep the small stuff together
If you have a morass of small daily actions that drown you, manage them as clustered items. Try to do your photocopying in 20-minute chunks, to make your phone calls in half-hour sessions, read your mail in 40-minute slots and to file your papers in 15-minute intervals. Set your own durations for these clustered items long enough to achieve satisfaction but not so long as to get jaded.
When you deal with your mail and email, make your actions immediate: delete dead files, mark your decision on short papers, pile up longer papers for a future reading period, relay decisions for other to act, and mark appointments and future notes in your diary.
Some activities can be condensed into specific times of the day that match your body clock: have a quiet time for reading major documents, fix a "go for" time to do errands, get stationery and make small purchases and agree a 'walk about' schedule when you can visit your staff.
Get your priorities right
Of course how you plan to spend your time will always be upset by the reality of customers calling, staff needing help and stuff happening. The value of a good plan is in your ability to re-plan. I suggest that a major element in successfully managing your time is to know the priority that you place on your activities now. So on that list of "to do" activities, rank them from first priority down to tenth priority. Then as new items come in, you can decide where they fit into your ranking.
I have yet to hear of anyone who on their deathbed has said, "I wish I had spent more time at work". So I coach my clients using the 'wheel of life' to help them balance
How can we concentrate more on the blessings of our marriage? How can we discover the goodness in the person we married? By focusing on what brings contentment and happiness. For instance, just a simple switch in attitude can make a person have more compassion for the person they married. We have to stop believing in the lies we hear.The world likes to feed gullible people things that aren’t true. Some people are susceptible to these untruths because they want to be
When you deal with your mail and email, make your actions immediate: delete dead files, mark your decision on short papers, pile up longer papers for a future reading period, relay decisions for other to act, and mark appointments and future notes in your diary.
Some activities can be condensed into specific times of the day that match your body clock: have a quiet time for reading major documents, fix a "go for" time to do errands, get stationery and make small purchases and agree a 'walk about' schedule when you can visit your staff.
Get your priorities right
Of course how you plan to spend your time will always be upset by the reality of customers calling, staff needing help and stuff happening. The value of a good plan is in your ability to re-plan. I suggest that a major element in successfully managing your time is to know the priority that you place on your activities now. So on that list of "to do" activities, rank them from first priority down to tenth priority. Then as new items come in, you can decide where they fit into your ranking.
I have yet to hear of anyone who on their deathbed has said, "I wish I had spent more time at work". So I coach my clients using the 'wheel of life' to help them balance
Have you ever asked yourself what your highest income producing activity is?If you’re like most people you probably go about your day-to-day business never really thinking about the moment to moment activities that consume your day.I’d like to walk you through an exercise that has helped me and my clients really stay focused on earning their highest possible revenue per hour.Let’s assume that we each start with 365 days in a year. If we take away the fo
Of course how you plan to spend your time will always be upset by the reality of customers calling, staff needing help and stuff happening. The value of a good plan is in your ability to re-plan. I suggest that a major element in successfully managing your time is to know the priority that you place on your activities now. So on that list of "to do" activities, rank them from first priority down to tenth priority. Then as new items come in, you can decide where they fit into your ranking.
I have yet to hear of anyone who on their deathbed has said, "I wish I had spent more time at work". So I coach my clients using the 'wheel of life' to help them balance their efforts on what they value: business, family, friends, self-development, sport and other passions.
For those clients who run profitable businesses, I also remind them to plan time to work on the business: they should not restrict their time management to work in their business.
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