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Productivity Tips and Time Management
This document provides numerous time management and productivity tips, including focusing on making every minute count, setting daily priorities like identifying your most important task, using a notebook to capture tasks and move them to a calendar, limiting email checking, saying no to most tasks outside your goals, following the 80/20 rule to focus on the most important 20% of tasks, delegating other tasks, having consistent morning and weekly routines, and using the Pomodoro Technique to focus in intervals separated by breaks. The overall message is on being intentional with your time by prioritizing key tasks and limiting distractions.
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Productivity Tips and Time Management
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- 2. Book • A numberof these ideas are from the book 15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management • By Kevin Kruse
- 5. Focus on EveryMinute • There are 1,440 minutes in every day • Make every one count • Focus on being intentional
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- 8. Set Daily Priorities •Identify your Most Important Task (MIT) • Work on it for two hours every morning
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- 13. To Do Lists •Activate your To Do list by scheduling it on your calendar
- 14. Beat Procrastination • Whatsteps can you take to insure your future self does the right thing?
- 16. The Terminator • Therewill always be more to do. • Time-block your priorities • Operate guilt-free
- 17. Use a Notebook •Capture everything in a notebook so your mind can remain unburdened • 95% of the thoughts we have are not new; we run the same things over and over • Move To-Dos and action items to your calendar • Note Pad on phone • Evernote • Apps
- 18. Limit email checking •Checking email becomes a nervous tic • Time waster; distracter • Don’t let email and SM interrupt your Flow • Check email two or three times a day • Tim Ferriss recommends once a week • See Steven Kotler on Flow
- 19. Avoid Meetings • Keepmeetings short • Make everyone stand • Egg timer
- 20. Say “No” toalmost everything • Opportunity Costs • Every “Yes” is actually a “No” to something else • Say no to everything outside your goal areas • Strategic: does this activity meet my strategic goals?
- 21. Follow the 80/20Rule • Pareto Principle • 80% of outcomes come from only 20% of activities • Tim Ferriss • Identify the 20% and ignore the rest
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- 25. Delegate and Outsource •Identify your strengths and unique abilities and outsource everything else • Freelancer.com • Mechanical Turk • Automate – Tim Ferriss – Bold
- 27. Work Themes forDays of the Week • Create a set day of the week schedule to focus on major areas. • Batch your tasks during the day
- 28. Touch Things Once •If something will take less than 10 minutes to complete (and is worth doing) do it immediately • Touch things once.
- 29. Consistent Morning Ritual •Wake up early and give yourself 60 minutes for mental, physical and spiritual health • Meditate – If you don’t have 20 minutes to meditate, you need 2 hours.
- 30. Focus on Energy •Don’t think about time, focus on energy • Maximize your energy to maximize productivity • Focus on – Sleep – Diet – Exercise – Short breaks throughout the day • Pomodoro technique – Music
- 31. Pomodoro Technique • ThePomodoro Technique is a time management method developed by Francesco Cirillo in the late 1980s. The technique uses a timer to break down work into intervals, traditionally 25 minutes in length, separated by short breaks.
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