“ If you want to know what I’m struggling with, look at my computer. There are always 50 reminders on the screen…it’s driving me crazy!” Director of Sales Insurance Company

It takes 21 days to change a habit Identify your own time management rhythm and perfect it Overcome procrastination No more rigid rules, charts, logs, etc. Know your workflow to decide what you need to delegate, outsource, or dismiss The 21-Day Program

It takes 21 days to change a habit

Identify your own time management rhythm and perfect it

Overcome procrastination

No more rigid rules, charts, logs, etc.

Know your workflow to decide what you need to delegate, outsource, or dismiss

Eliminate your time wasting habits Identify what will help you move forward faster at any given time Use less time putting off fires every day Eliminate redundancy and build an efficient system The 21-Day Program

Eliminate your time wasting habits

Identify what will help you move forward faster at any given time

Use less time putting off fires every day

Eliminate redundancy and build an efficient system

1. Focus 2. Awareness There Are Only Two Rules

1. Focus 2. Awareness

Where are you going and how is what you are doing right now related? Planning and prioritizing Seeing the whole system So you can Zoom in on the most influential actions you can do to promote your goal Identify what you’re not doing that if you did would get you faster to your goal Focus Means

Where are you going and how is what you are doing right now related?

Planning and prioritizing

Seeing the whole system

So you can

Zoom in on the most influential actions you can do to promote your goal

Identify what you’re not doing that if you did would get you faster to your goal

Know where you are going Ask yourself constantly why you are doing a certain task Ask yourself if this is the best way to achieve the task or if perhaps there is a better way Find who’s the best person to do the task Pause Honor your limitations as a human being Choose to be 100% selfish What Should You Do?

Know where you are going

Ask yourself constantly why you are doing a certain task

Ask yourself if this is the best way to achieve the task or if perhaps there is a better way

Find who’s the best person to do the task

Pause

Honor your limitations as a human being

Choose to be 100% selfish

There’s someone who gets paid less than you who can do it reasonably well There’s someone else better at it You can’t complete the important stuff and this is not critical to the achievement of the goal Who Needs To Do It TASK Choose one random thing you spend your time on today and check the following expenses: What else would you do if you didn’t have to do that? Which opportunities are you missing by spending your time on doing it? What is the best quality-cost balance and who has it? You shouldn’t be doing it if

There’s someone who gets paid less than you who can do it reasonably well

There’s someone else better at it

You can’t complete the important stuff and this is not critical to the achievement of the goal

TASK

Choose one random thing you spend your time on today and check the following expenses:

What else would you do if you didn’t have to do that?

Which opportunities are you missing by spending your time on doing it?

What is the best quality-cost balance and who has it?

Do you ask yourself why you do things? Are you making a choice about what to do? What do you do when you feel confused? What is Awareness Made Of?

Do you ask yourself why you do things?

Are you making a choice about what to do?

What do you do when you feel confused?

Know your rhythm The speed you identify that you are out of rhythm Knowing your own transition mechanism: from ineffective to effective Your ability to apply transitional mechanisms Minimizing what doesn’t work Five Secrets of Time Management

Know your rhythm

The speed you identify that you are out of rhythm

Knowing your own transition mechanism: from ineffective to effective

Your ability to apply transitional mechanisms

Minimizing what doesn’t work

It’s better to fine tune yourself than try to adopt things that work for different people You can’t turn into someone else So let’s stop with the rigid rules Discover your own rhythm TASK Acknowledge how different you are, what is unique about the way you keep track of your tasks, your progress, how you move between tasks etc. Don’t criticize it, try to honor it because something about it works for you!

It’s better to fine tune yourself than try to adopt things that work for different people

You can’t turn into someone else

So let’s stop with the rigid rules

Identify strategies that help you get back on track

In your natural process, which actions bring you back into focus? Refocus Charting Thinking during lull time Preparing a meal

In your natural process, which actions bring you back into focus?

Recognize your poor time management signs There are two types: Signs of Poor Time Management Early – internal, responsive, short Late – external, avoidance, long

Recognize your poor time management signs

There are two types:

Early – internal, responsive, short

Late – external, avoidance, long

Surfing the web endlessly Watching TV more than usual Starting a task then moving to the next task without completing the first Reading and writing emails when you know you should be doing something else Your Late Poor Time Management Signs

Surfing the web endlessly

Watching TV more than usual

Starting a task then moving to the next task without completing the first

Reading and writing emails when you know you should be doing something else

Physical reactions Mood shifts Preoccupied thinking patters Your Early Poor Time Management Signs

Physical reactions

Mood shifts

Preoccupied thinking patters

“ I don’t control my tasks, they control me. On a typical day I come in knowing I’ll be putting off fires all day, and when I go home I wonder what I had accomplished.” Executive Director Non-profit Sector

The 21 day program isn’t designed to overload you with techniques. It’s designed to help you improve. There are no more rules! Those are very different goals!

The 21 day program isn’t designed to overload you with techniques. It’s designed to help you improve.

Reut Schwartz-Hebron is a thinking methods expert. This means she works with techniques and skills that improve thinking processes. She is the President of the Kind Excellence Institute, and the author of Out Swim the Sharks . Reut is personally dedicated to providing executives with the techniques that lead to kind excellence in business and is currently working on a nation wide revolution called “The Management Initiative” to promote a kind management style that leads to superior results in corporate America. For a list of clients and praise for Reut’s work please visit www.KindExcellence.com or feel free to contact Reut directly at: reut@KindExcellence.com About Reut Schwartz-Hebron

Reut Schwartz-Hebron is a thinking methods expert. This means she works with techniques and skills that improve thinking processes.

She is the President of the Kind Excellence Institute, and the author of Out Swim the Sharks .

Reut is personally dedicated to providing executives with the techniques that lead to kind excellence in business and is currently working on a nation wide revolution called “The Management Initiative” to promote a kind management style that leads to superior results in corporate America.

For a list of clients and praise for Reut’s work please visit www.KindExcellence.com or feel free to contact Reut directly at: reut@KindExcellence.com