Poor time management leads to accomplishing less with the same resources. Declining to set aside specific times to work on projects may result in unmet goals. Under these conditions, it is easy to spend the entire day responding to urgent items and be unable to find the time to complete more important items.
Solution: Identify & Pinpoint time expenditure.
- Use a calendar to schedule deep-dive project time.
- When possible, schedule other, less important tasks around brain-intensive project time.
- ‘Chunk’ similar activities like processing email and returning phone calls.
- Keep detailed records so you don’t have to search for important items after the fact.
The custom half-day schedule management tool below includes time frames for regular daily activities as well as planned deep-dive project time. Extra time is built in for unexpected occurrences – a meeting runs late, heavy traffic, or a task takes longer than expected.
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