SUBJECT: Business Productivity Lesson #3 - Priorities

No Communication Times

Apportion uninterruptible blocks of time for
unaccompanied work where you must focus. Schedule
light, interruptible jobs for your open
communication time periods and more ambitious
projects for your no communication periods.

1st, cut down disruptions

You can’t truly begin adding more productive
activities to your work schedule till you free
yourself from productivity-sapping interruptions.
Try these strategies.

1. Resolve problems before they occur. Start by
analyzing interruptions. Are there frequent time
wasters that could be avoided with a little more
upfront planning?

2. Group like activities. If at all conceivable,
ask people to reschedule their communication with
you during the same period. In that way, you are
able to have several productive hours before
being interrupted.

Likewise, attempt to block out particular times
in your day to return calls. Unless it’s a real
emergency—which are few, a client isn't going to
have a problem with getting a message that says
“I will call you back between 11 and noon this
morning.” And grouping all my call returns
together lets me concentrate on other things
instead of constantly dropping everything to
respond to a call.

3. Schedule disruptions. Appropriate particular
times during the day—around lunch, for
instance—when you’re available to answer
colleagues questions, catch up with friends, or
talk to your children. Apply this even to your
family, unless it’s an emergency.

Micro-Mileposts

When you start a task, name the target you must
reach before you are able to quit working. For
instance, when working on a book, you may decide
not to get up till you’ve written at least a
thousand words. Hit your target regardless what.

You are able to think of goal setting as a
process that helps you to decide precisely what
it is that you want, and then to systematically
do what you need to do in order to get it.

It's a process that helps you center your time
and energy on your most crucial targets, produce
strategies and plans to reach them, take action,
and make adjustments as necessary till you reach
them. 


To Your Success,
YOUR NAME
YOUR LINK