- Carry a schedule and record all your thoughts, conversations and activities for a week. This will help you understand how much you can get done during the course of a day and where your precious time is going.
- Appointment books work. Schedule appointments with yourself and create time blocks for high-priority thoughts, conversations, and actions. Make sure you have the discipline to keep these appointments.
- Plan to spend at least 50% of your time engaged in the thoughts, activities and conversations that produce most of your results.
- Schedule time for interruptions. Plan time to be pulled away from what you're doing.
- Take the first 30 minutes of every day to plan your day. Don't start your day until you complete your time plan.
- Take five minutes before every call and task to decide what result you want to attain. This will help you know what success looks like before you start.
- Put up a "Do not disturb" sign when you absolutely have to get work done.
- Practice not answering the phone just because it's ringing and e-mails just because they show up. Disconnect instant messaging. Instead, schedule a time to answer email and return phone calls.
- Block out other distractions like Facebook and other forms of social media.
- Remember that it's impossible to get everything done.
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