Bringing Balance to Life: Finding Time You Never Knew You Had

These Suggestions will help you find time for the important things in life:
  • Reduce paperwork
    • Clearing your desk will help you focus on what’s important
    • Toss low priority paperwork and junk
    • Handle every piece of paper once—do it then trash it
  • Get an early start. Begin—and finish—your most essential work before everyone else arrives and the telephone starts ringing. 
  • Know your rhythmsDetermine your most productive time and reserve it for prime projects. 
  • WIN—ask yourself What’s Important Now and do the most important things first
  • Reduce meeting time—meetings are the biggest waste of time in America. 
    • Have everyone stand at a meeting—they’ll leave quicker
    • Stick with the agenda
    • Stop digressive talk
    • Reduce the time for meetings—meetings tend to fill the time allotted for them
    • Don’t schedule or attend wasteful meetings
    • Ten minutes after the meeting begins have someone call you and leave
  • Delegate tasks that others can do
  • Use transition time wisely—is texting or reading email the best use of waiting time?
  • Reduce Facebook time
  • Text less, talk more—texting in front of others is rude and narcissistic
  • Keep email messages short—no more than one paragraph will do for most messages. (Ask yourself if you want everyone in the world to read this because they might.)
  • Turn off the television—skip mind constricting programs.
  • Rest and relax—relaxing restores energy and improves concentration enabling you to get more done faster. Breaking up your schedule with a 10 minute respite every 90 minutes improves efficiency. A lumberjack knows that the oak cuts faster when he takes time to sharpen the ax.
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