Blogs are great things and sometimes wake you up. Reading a blog today about setting goals and accomplishing your goals was eye opening. I am sitting at an Open House for one of my listings and wanted to be productive if the pace was slow so I brought my computer.
Do you have those days where you feel like you have gone in circles? Don’t we all………. Well, I am always busy but I don’t know if it is always a productive busy. Then there are those times when you get derailed from your tasks but just being in the office. Don’t want to be anti-social and there is a wealth of information to learn from your office buddies but there are times when the talking has to be put on the back burner. So I am slowly learning to let go of the unnecessary tasks I do. I read goal setting books and motivational books such as Hill’s “Think and Grow Rich” but do I implement what I have read?
So doing my reading today, I had one of those light bulb moments:
Do a prioritized task list every Monday (or Sunday evening) for the week. Then as you look at each task ask yourself:
Does this task take me closer to accomplishing my goals? If not, WHY am I doing it? Who/ what do I need to manage on a daily basis?
I am my most important asset to be managed. The secret to time management is this: MAKE AN APPOINTMENT with yourself (whatever you need 1 hour,
2 hours, 3 hours a day) to get the most pressing things DONE each day. Focus on finishing the list.
Turn off the phone and the computer. Don’t look (NO PEEKING) at your email account. This will prevent ANYONE from stealing your time. Use the standard message to reply to calls or emails that you return calls or emails between the hours of xx and xx or text if it is an emergency. Do not set that time until AFTER you finish your list time or you could get sidetracked and not finish your list for the day.
Focus on the list. Whatever happens today can be answered after today’s list is done, and put on tomorrow’s list, next week’s list, or delegated to someone else’s list, or no one’s list.
But today…today’s already booked.
Successful people work toward their goals; failures work at tasks.
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