Achieve Effective Time Management by Implementing new Strategies
It was great to be featured in Investors Business Daily with my friend Rory Vaden, author of Procrastinate on Purpose. Read the full article below or click on the image (or here) to read it on the IBD website.
There’s a new way to strategize time management, according to Rory Vaden, author of “Procrastinate On Purpose,” and Neen James, author of “Folding Time: How to Achieve Twice As Much In Half The Time.”
Ultraperformers, whom Vaden calls multipliers, put their energy into things today that create more time tomorrow.
He suggests putting tasks through a focus funnel: What can’t be discarded, done by technology or given to someone else is for you to do immediately.
Fire up the DeLorean and make time in the future:
Eliminate. Vaden said, “Next-generation time management is more about deciding what not to do.” The danger in trying to accomplish everything is saying yes to things that don’t really matter. By learning to say no, he offers, you’re multiplying time, freeing it up to allocate to tasks that make the most difference now and in the future.
“You don’t have time to do everything,” said James, “only time to do what matters.”
Automate. When you create a process today, you’re saving time tomorrow, Vaden points out.
Take online bill payment. Time invested in setting it up saves hours down the road.
“Multipliers know that automation is to your time exactly what compounding interest is to your money,” Vaden said.
Find the app. Using smartphone technology multiplies hours when you know the right applications to access, James says.
Some of her favorites:
Evernote. It helps you search for what’s important to you.
Pzizz. It helps you nap via scientific methods.
Hootsuite. It manages your social media communications.
Delegate. Some people fear that others can’t do a task as well as they can, “so they hold on to everything themselves,” Vaden said. Become a multiplier, accepting imperfection and gaining time.
Procrastinate on purpose. It’s the title of Vaden’s book because he emphasizes that it’s smart to sometimes put off decisions.
Said James: “You don’t manage time — you choose how to invest your time. Busy is not productive.”
Concentrate. If a task must be done now and you determine that only you can do it, it’s time to enter Vaden’s focus funnel — when you protect your turf and time.
“Don’t multitask,” Vaden said. Rather, by going all in on the task, you will multiply time because you’ll complete it faster.
“Stop living urgent and start living significant,” he said.
Restrict screen time. “Devote your attention to the achievement of your goals,” James advised. Limit or eliminate “wasting time on social media sites, reading email and text messages, and using your phone and sometimes TV as something to do to fill or kill time.”
Accelerate engagement. Give people the gift of your undivided attention, James says.
Leaders need to pay special attention to people in order to accelerate the achievement of strategy and tasks. Failure to do so results in constantly having to repeat requests and dealing with missing deadlines.
Valuable time is wasted in non-completion of things, James notes.
Plan. Forget complicated to-do lists, says James. Instead, she said, “Invest 15 minutes creating your strategy for the day.”
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