Time Management and Goal Setting – 7 Tips To Being More Productive in 2008
Being more productive is a combination of goal setting and time management. Here are 7 tips for being more productive in 2008. Follow these tips and you will be able to increase your income significantly while also increasing your time off tremendously.
- Make a list of what you will do that day. Prepare this list the evening before so that it will be ready for you first thing in the morning. This list will include anything you must do the next day, including both personal and business items. When you complete each item, cross it off with a red pen. You will feel good when you can actually see what you have accomplished. At the end of the day, cross off everything and move the things you have not finished onto the list for the following day. See what you could have delegated or what really didn’t need to be done. Clean off your desk and leave your list where you can see it the next morning.
- Choose hours in your day when you will work, uninterrupted, for a specific amount of time. I work from 7 until 11 each morning. These are my prime time hours and I do not allow any interruptions, unless it is a true emergency. During this time I only work on revenue generating activities, like writing articles, working on my ebooks, posting to my blogs, writing my action guides for my upcoming teleseminars, and writing sales copy for my products and services. I do not read email during this time, answer the telephone, or do anything else. The first full hour of your day is when you are the freshest, so make this your first prime time hour.
- Use a timer during your prime time hours to let you know when the hour is up. You can set the timer for 45 or 55 minutes, and then get up and stretch, get a cup of coffee, or do something to just relax. I have small dogs, so I let them go out and I get a drink of water or use the bathroom until it is time to go back to work and begin my next prime time hour.
- Have an idea capturing system. You may want to use a digital recorder for this. I write down my ideas on the back side of my daily list. When your timer goes off take just a minute or two to write down or record the ideas you don’t want to lose before your next prime time hour.
- Offer one free consultation each week. This is when you gift other people with what you know. Do this during a non-prime time for you. This is a time when you can share what you do and what you know with other people. If they choose to find out more they can join your list or your program. If they are not interested you part as friends, with no further obligation or expectation of either of your parts.
- Find a coaching buddy. Find someone who knows about a topic that you want to know more on. Spend an hour on a call where you will exchange ideas with this other person. You will both learn new tips, tricks, and secrets about what the other person does and be able to accomplish more as a result of these calls. There are many people out there who would be more than willing to do this once a month.
- Set goals for how much revenue you want to make each week and stick to it for the next 90 days. If you want to bring in $1000 per week, set that as your revenue goal and work toward that number. If you are working without interruption for at least an hour each day, you will be able to achieve your goal over time. Adjust your goal each 90 days as you begin to make more money.
Give these 7 tips a try and you will be more productive than ever in 2008.
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