Sent: Sunday, December 06, 2009 6:06 AM
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Here are my three most important time-management techniques:
1. Set yearly and monthly goals, weekly objectives, and daily tasks.
First you set your yearly goals. Your break those down into monthly goals. Then you break your monthly goals into weekly objectives. And you break those objectives into daily tasks. A good system for coming up with a daily task list was developed in the 1980s by David Allen. He says you ask yourself four questions about each of your weekly objectives:
* What do I need to do to take the next step?
* Do I need to gather more information?
* Do I need to take or delegate some specific action?
* Or do I need to do nothing for a certain period of time?
2. Prioritize your task list.
The best method for prioritizing was developed by the Franklin Covey organization. The idea is to put each task on your list into one of four categories:
* important and urgent
* important but not urgent
* not important but urgent
* not important and not urgent
You should give top priority to the important-but-not-urgent tasks. Why? Because those are usually the ones that will help you accomplish your long-term goals -- the goals that will have the greatest impact on your life. And if you don't give them priority, they will never get done.
3. Get up an hour earlier every day.
That extra hour is yours. It is sacred. Use it to work on a task related to your most important long-term goal. Do not do anything else during that hour.
* Do NOT open your e-mail.
* Do NOT read the newspaper.
* Do NOT look at your inbox.
Just sit down and start working on that life-changing goal.
There lots of other ways to make your time serve you better. (One is to clump together all similar activities -- such as phone calls or e-mails -- on your schedule.) But the above three are the ones that have had the greatest effect on my personal productivity.
1. Set yearly and monthly goals, weekly objectives, and daily tasks.
First you set your yearly goals. Your break those down into monthly goals. Then you break your monthly goals into weekly objectives. And you break those objectives into daily tasks. A good system for coming up with a daily task list was developed in the 1980s by David Allen. He says you ask yourself four questions about each of your weekly objectives:
* What do I need to do to take the next step?
* Do I need to gather more information?
* Do I need to take or delegate some specific action?
* Or do I need to do nothing for a certain period of time?
2. Prioritize your task list.
The best method for prioritizing was developed by the Franklin Covey organization. The idea is to put each task on your list into one of four categories:
* important and urgent
* important but not urgent
* not important but urgent
* not important and not urgent
You should give top priority to the important-but-not-urgent tasks. Why? Because those are usually the ones that will help you accomplish your long-term goals -- the goals that will have the greatest impact on your life. And if you don't give them priority, they will never get done.
3. Get up an hour earlier every day.
That extra hour is yours. It is sacred. Use it to work on a task related to your most important long-term goal. Do not do anything else during that hour.
* Do NOT open your e-mail.
* Do NOT read the newspaper.
* Do NOT look at your inbox.
Just sit down and start working on that life-changing goal.
There lots of other ways to make your time serve you better. (One is to clump together all similar activities -- such as phone calls or e-mails -- on your schedule.) But the above three are the ones that have had the greatest effect on my personal productivity.
Make It a Great Week
To Thine Own Self Be True
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Did you wake up 1hr earlier yet to do your life changing goal? *wink*
ReplyDeleteI was woke up about 1 hour earlier today. However, i am not that ambitious nowadays, I didnt do anything but lying around on my bed. thehehehe...
ReplyDeleteRead a book, magazine, but please not Mangga ha
ReplyDeleteHahaha!!! Been awhile didnt read Mangga lor... Then again tht mag is for viewing purposes NOT reading... LOL
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