Photo via Wikipedia: 1 hour = 60 minutes – are you making every minute count?
An 18-Minute Plan for Managing Your Day – Peter Bregman – HarvardBusiness.org: “…we start every day knowing we’re not going to get it all done. So how we spend our time is a key strategic decision. That’s why it’s a good idea to create a to do list and an ignore list. The hardest attention to focus is our own.”
Of course the real challenge as one might say is not having the great idea – it’s about getting it done. According to Jack LaLanne that’s ritual. Personally I like to call it discipline. Managing time has to be a ritual according to Peter Bregman and apparently it only takes 18 minutes over an 8 hour work day.
Here are the steps in short:
1. Set the Plan Before You Turn On Your Computer (5 minutes).
What will make your day a success to you? Write it down.
Put the most important and hardest things first before even the email.
If you can’t fit it all, re-prioritize.
There is a psychological thing for people to do what they say they will do if they say when and where.
2. Refocus (1 minute every hour)
Set your watch, phone or computer to ring every hour. When it does, take a breath and ask yourself if you’ve spent the last hour being productive. Look at your calendar and see how you’ll work the next hour.
3. Review (5 minutes)
Shut off the computer and think about your day. What worked and what didn’t?
Practicing something over and over again is ritual and it will certainly hone the knife’s edge. Ritual means you’ll do it no matter what even if there’s a mountain standing in your way.
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