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1. Y#36 March 1, 2015
Window for action loving
PROFESSIONALS
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Dear Readers
Greetings!
What does an action
loving professional aim
at? He creates the right
opportunities and does
everything on time.
What do others do? They
give excuses. Excuses, of
course, have no uses.
A lot has been said on
TIME management. Still a
lot is waiting to be done
around us in personal and
professional life.
Is it managing the nitty-
gritty of every second that
takes us around or is it
looking at the high-low
stakes of our life? The
deliberation continues
along with the
significance of we, the
mortals, wrapped in
timelines.
Keep winning…
Rajiv Khurana
Editor
rajiv@rajivkhurana.com
9810211256.
A2Z Actions to
boost your
time usage
2-3
Time pass in
rough time
4-6
What time
management
books talk
about
7-9
Time Quotes 10
The
trouble
is, you
think
you
have the
TIME.
- Buddha

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Window for action loving
PROFESSIONALS
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A2Z
Actions
to boost
your time
usage
Rajiv Khurana
CMC, FIMC
Always keep long term goals in mind.
Be sure and set deadlines for yourself
whenever possible.
Catch yourself when you are involved
in unproductive projects and stop as
soon as you can.
Do first things first.
Examine and revise your lifetime goals
on a monthly basis and be sure to
include progress towards those goals
on a daily basis.
Find something to enjoy in whatever
you do.
Gather ways to build on your
successes.
Have confidence in yourself and in
your judgement of priorities and stick
to them no matter what.
Invest in people and delegate
responsibilities whenever possible.
Just concentrate on one thing at a
time.
Keep paper or smart phone with you
to jot down the things you have to do
or notes to yourself.
Look ahead in your month and try and
anticipate what is going to happen so
you can better schedule your time.
Maintain and develop a list of specific
things to be done each day, set your
priorities and the get the most
important ones done as soon in the
day as you can. Evaluate your progress
at the end of the day briefly.

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Window for action loving
PROFESSIONALS
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A2Z
Actions
to boost
your time
usage
Neutralize your old bad habits and
search for ways to change or eliminate
them.
Optimize your energies to push
yourself and be persistent, especially
when you know you are doing well.
Put up reminders in your home or
office about your goals.
Quiet hour: Plan your day each
morning or the night before and set
priorities for yourself.
Remind yourself, "There is always
enough time for the important things."
If it is important, you should be able to
make time to do it.
Stop regretting your failures and start
learning from your mistakes.
Try to be an optimist and seek out the
good in your life.
Use your waiting time to read, review
notes or do connecting with people.
Voluntarily and continually look at
ways of freeing up your time.
When you catch yourself
procrastinating-ask yourself, "What am
I avoiding?"
Xpress your thoughts on paper when
possible-it makes it easier to review
and revise.
Yearn to learn more and seek advice
when needed.
Zest: try rewarding yourself when you
get things done as you had planned,
especially the important ones.

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Window for action loving
PROFESSIONALS
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A man was going into the jungle. His friend
enquired, “You are going alone and un-
armed, what will you do if you meet the
Lion?” The man replied, “What can I do?
Whatever shall be done shall be done by the
Lion.” Bad times are like that only. Doom
times and Gloom times keep coming and
moving out. There passage is, however, quite
difficult. In Doom and Gloom times you have
no options. The Lion has.
So what should you, as a thorough bred
professional, do if your job accidentally
moves through the tough patches of gloom
times, “acche din” notwithstanding?
Here are some not so serious prescriptions: -
Make the not-working network work: Feel comfortable. You
are not alone. There are hundreds, nay, thousands like you.
Create your own chapter of ITPA – Indian Time Pass
Association. Your personal membership could be temporary
but there are millions others who have mastered the art of
perpetual time pass. You can add some value to ITPA by
introducing some of the tried and tested office techniques of
time wasting during peak pressure times.
Prove that you are a concerned parent: It’s high time to brush
up your maths and science lessons. Mug up for the whole
year. Your child will start scolding you less for making home
work mistakes. The grade improvements of your child can
bring in some family celebrations. You can also use this gloom
time to provide the quality time in quantity to your children.
Bring out the child in you. You may easily score boundries if
your young child is bowling. This is a good recipe’ to
temporary forget the hostile bouncers on the corporate
pitches.
TIME
PASS
in
rough
time
Nothing Serious
RajivKhurana,CMCFIMC

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PROFESSIONALS
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Be futuristic: The excuses you have been using so far are
quite old and stale. Why not create some brand new ones.
The bloom times and the boom times will come sooner or
later. These new excuses can do wonders for you. Keep this
as one of the conference topic in your next ITPA
convention.
Mouse over the www: No, No, No… not for another
experimentation with dot com. This time for serious
learning. People like you would be hovering around the
chat rooms. Broaden your global mindset. Cry on each
other’s web shoulders. The tears will expand linkages and
provide the FR [foreign returned] peace of mind.
Learn from proxy war: Corporate wars are similar to real
wars. Just the tools are different. Decide which side you
are. Simulate the maneuvers of the international villains.
This can help you learn to remain elusive in the corporate
bureaucracy - if ever a drone is used on you.
Get a slimmer look: Thin is in. Even though you have
stopped looking in the mirror after those un-ending
corporate lunches/dinners or eating the high on calories
high on price so called home like food served in the star
hotels; its time to dust-off those sneakers and step out to
burn the vast reservoir of un-utilized dormant energy
around your waist. If you want others to do it for you, this
can immediately make the slimming centers rush on to the
booming path of recovery.
TIME
PASS

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PROFESSIONALS
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Scan the library: The air-conditioning in the American and
British Library is pretty good. Many people sit there to be
seen. Make your presence felt too. Go through the best-seller
titles of the last five years. Read the preface. Read the index
too. This should be sufficient to flaunt your label of being a
well-read professional. Don’t forget to remember the names
of the authors. The trick is not knowing what is written but
who has written where.
Visit godmen: Gloom times can be very trying and testing. Try
spirituality. Take the latest mantra from the holy-god-men.
These days they take extra care on building the surroundings.
The scent of the people and the place is quite absorbing. Get
inspired by the pop-moksha capsule or sit down to work out
your own strategy of getting initiated into this never failing
business enterprise. The service attachments can be many, if
you can’t find a toe-hole for yourself in the main stream.
[Excuse me GOD. Please keep yourself out of it].
Do nothing: Why are you so hyper. For millions in India, the
gloom time has always been there. They have mainly done
only one thing – nothing. Time passes. This too shall pass.
Why bother. Just wait for the time to pass.
Do what I do: If every thing else fails, get on with the past
times of pseudo-intellectuals like me. Start writing. It will give
you great feelings. Write a memoir. Write about your tryst
with destiny, your freedom at mid-afternoon, your pride and
prejudice or else about anything. Don’t worry if readers don’t
read you. Just write. This is the best way to build your image.
Keep the words of Oscar Wilde in mind, “Writing is the only
profession, where no body ridicules you for not earning.”
TIME
PASS

7. Y#36 March 1, 2015
Window for action loving
PROFESSIONALS
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In his book No B.S. Time
Management for
Entrepreneurs, business
coach and consultant Dan
Kennedy reveals the steps
behind making the most of
your frantic, time-
pressured days so you can
turn time into money.
If you read every time
management book ever
written or go to every time
management seminar
offered, you'll be able to
boil all the technique
“stuff” down to just a few
things worth doing. Let me
save you some time and
talk about a few key time
management techniques:
What time
management
books talk
about…
Technique #1: Make and use
lists. There is not a single time
management discipline or
system on earth that doesn’t
revolve around making and
using lists. You cannot carry it
all in your head. For years, I’ve
operated with four basic lists:
1. My Schedule. This is for the
entire year, day by day.
2. Things-to-Do List. This is a
basic “Things-to-Do” list
organized by month, week,
and day, prioritized as As, Bs
and Cs.
3. People-to-Call List. My third
list is a “People-to-Call” list,
also prioritized alphabetically.
4. Conference Planner. This is
just a page for each person I
interact with a lot, where I jot
down things I need to talk to
them about as they occur to
me in between meetings or
conversations.
You have to get some sort of
regimented, regularly used
list-making system working
for you. If you aren’t making
lists, you probably aren’t
making a lot of money either.
http://www.entreprene
ur.com/article/229772

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What time
management
books talk
about…
Technique #2: Tickle the memory
with tickler files. The idea is simple:
You have 90 file folders: red ones
numbered 1 through 30, blue ones
numbered 1 through 30, and white
numbered ones 1 through 30 that
represent the current month, next
month and the month after that.
Let’s assume you agree to follow up
with a client on a particular matter
on the 10th of next month. Take
either that client’s whole file or that
piece of correspondence or a
handwritten note, and plop it into
the blue file folder numbered 10.
And forget it. On the 10th of next
month, it’ll pop up all by itself and
remind you to do it. Used right,
tickler files reduce clutter, serve as
automatic memory, and help
organize daily activities.
Yes, I'm well aware that there are all
sorts of “contact management
programs” for computers, pads and
phones that can substitute for the
file folders in a drawer. If you prefer
that, by all means, be my guest. But
manual, automated, physical,
virtual, or hybrid, a tickler file
system can be a very good friend.
Technique #3:
Minimize meetings
. Nothing ever got
done in a meeting.
I hate 'em. For a lot
of people,
meetings are a
place to hide out.
Or preen and be
important. But
they're not a place
to actually do work
or get anything
done. You need a
strategy to avoid
them. If you lead
meetings, you need
a strategy to
abbreviate and
focus them. If you
must attend
meetings, you need
a strategy to
escape from them
at will.

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Window for action loving
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What time
management
books talk
about…
Technique #4: Block your
time. Most people’s schedules only
have their locked-in-stone
appointments with others. Mine
also has my pre-allocated, locked-in-
stone appointments with myself and
my work. For each year, a lot of time
gets locked down months ahead.
For example, I clump most of my
necessary phone appointments
during a month into one day and
book my Phone Day in each month
a year ahead.
Month to month, I book in various
work appointments: speaking
engagements, coaching meetings,
the time blocks for writing my
monthly newsletters or for work on
a book. My goal is to have as little
unassigned time as possible. If you
lay your calendar out before you
and pre-assign or block as much of
your time as possible, as much in
advance as possible, you will then
leave yourself only a small amount
of loose, unassigned time. By
blocking time for important, high-
value functions, you prevent the
demands of others from moving
your best-value activities from
number one to number ten on your
list, over and over again.
Technique #5: Profit
from “odd lot”
time. Everything is
now portable. A
seminar by a great
speaker, just about
any book ever
published, how-to
information of every
variety--it's all on
audio CDs and DVDs,
accessible through
online media, inside
your Kindle or Nook
or iPad. You can use
YouTube for
something other than
watching kittens
water ski. Or you can
make sure you have
an actual book with
you at all times.
There is no excuse to
simply waste time
while waiting in an
airport, stuck in
traffic, parked in a
reception room.
http://www.entreprene
ur.com/article/229772

10. Y#36 March 1, 2015
Window for action loving
PROFESSIONALS
It is those who make
the worst use of their
time who most
complain of its
shortness.
- Jean de la Bruyere
10
TIME
Quotes
It's not enough to be
busy. The question is:
What are we busy
about?
- Henry David
Thoreau
In reality, killing time
is only the name for
another of the
multifarious ways by
which Time kills us.
- Sir Osbert Sitwell
Even if you are on the
right track - you'll get
run over if you just sit
there.
- Arthur Godfrey
While we pursue the unattainable we
make impossible the realizable.
- Robert Ardrey
Great minds have
purposes, others have
wishes.
- Washington Irving
Today is the
tomorrow you
worried about
yesterday.
-Anonymous
Things may come to
those who wait, but
only the things left
by those who
hustle.
- Abraham Lincoln

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