1. Plan Your Day The Night Before
Every minute spent in planning saves 10 minutes in execution. Sit down with a
piece of paper and write down everything that you need to do the coming day. If
for any reason you don’t do this, it should be the first thing you do every
morning. When you write a list you have a track to run on.
Writing a list clarifies your thinking and goals…
Writing down a list forces you to think at a higher level…
One
of the habits of millionaires is that they start their day working from a list.
2. Set
Priorities On Your List Before You Start The Day
Work
from the 80/20 rule. If you have 10 items on your list of things to do, two
will be the more important than all of the other items put together.
Go
down your list and answer the question, “If I were to be called out of town for
a month, what are the most important tasks that I must accomplish?”
Last
fall I was out of the country traveling across 15 countries in 36 days. When I
looked at my list of things to do before I left, I had to get my most important
tasks done.
Once
you identify these most important tasks, it brings us to the final step in
starting your day.
3.
Complete The Most Important Task First
Begin
immediately on your most important task and focus on it and only it until
completion.
All success in
life comes from project completion and living a life of good habits will help
you complete more projects.
A project with
multiple tasks is called a “multi-task job”. This means that there are several
smaller jobs to complete the larger job. Organize your jobs by sequence in a
checklist and start on you most important project.
Complete the
smaller jobs in you project, until the entire project is complete. This process
is called “single handling” and it’s one of the most powerful things that you
can use in managing your time. You can
increase your productivity by 50% by planning, starting and completing your
most important tasks every single day.
Conclusion
If
you can develop these habits of successful people and do those three things,
plan your day the night before, organize your tasks in order of importance, and
complete your most important task first thing during your day. You will
increase your productivity overnight.
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