“Timed Productivity” ~ ‘What is Your Quadrant?’ (13Jun19, #24/52)

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“What is Your Quadrant?”, (13Jun19) – Priority setting is most important for YOUR success? Are you in the Quadrant of Accomplishing or trivial play or putting out fires all the time??

  1. Important goals/tasks should be contributing towards your secured future (desires, job goals, financial stability).
  2. Urgent – requires immediate attention: you cut your finger; going to an appointment and you get a flat tire; your child’s school calls!! You will be diverted from your important work/travel.
  3. Proper scheduling of planning activities; and building relationships will yield you the future you want.

Review: Quadrant 1 (Urgent, important); Quadrant 2 [Accomplishing] (NOT urgent, important); Quadrant 3 (urgent, not important) and Quadrant 4 (not urgent, not important).

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“Timed Productivity” ~ ‘You = Samurai’ – (25Apr2019/The Thursday BLOG), #17/52​

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​’You equals Samurai’ [25 April 19, #17 – The Thursday BLOG] – You must advocate for yourself. You must be like a Samurai – laser focused for YOUR goals.  You must adopt discipline!!

  • 1. Be aware of YOUR what you REALLY want.
  • 2. Encourage YOURSELF by saying – “I am changing to accomplish ( ‘your goal’ ).
  • 3. Start living as you have envisioned in your mind – – – until your achieve.

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“Timed Productivity” ~ “BUILD Your Steps” – (11 Apr 2019/The Thursday BLOG) #15/52

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Let do THIS – set your RITUAL steps. You should ideally have an AM and a PM ritual. PM – close your day and allow yourself to have a rest-filled sleep; AM – catapults you into a successful routine that you design for you and take your day by the ‘horns’.

  • Water – signal your body your are awake and what it to cooperate with your plan.
  • Meditate – center yourself and gain strength.
  • review your GOALS and select 3 (magic number) task to do successfully accomplish today.

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“Timed Productivity” ~ “3 for YOUR Schedule” – (28 Mar 2019/The Thursday BLOG) #13/52

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Sharing a tidbit from “Getting Results the Agile Way” by J. D. Meier – the Rule of 3! You get to choose what 3 you want ~ (smiles all around).

  • Identify 3 results you want for your week.
  • Identify 3 people you want to meet with; or, 3 projects you want to ‘touch’ this week.
  • Identify 3 books; or, podcast; or, newsletters you really want to read or listen to – – then, schedule that time.

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“Timed Productivity” ~ “Get A Grip” – (21 Mar 2019/The Thursday BLOG) w/Quarterly Update #12/52

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Happy (1st full day) SPRING!!

We are all familiar with ‘brainstorming’ whether alone or with our co-workers or a few trusted friend(s) – to generate new ideas.

New twist from “Getting Results The Agile Way’ by J. D. Meier – take a “Worry Break”! Write down everything that worries you. What is valid? Can you break down some needed actions into smaller tasks/projects? Then, ask 3 different people for advice to get their prospective. (They aren’t in the middle of YOUR forest)

  1. Break your “worry” into smaller, workable tasks.
  2. Do 1 of their suggestions.
  3. Work out the kinks, and keep it moving.

Surprise – Quarterly UPDATE: the dates coincided, so you get extra this issue. 1. The time management/efficiency kindle book is in process. If you would like to be included with your testimonial – please email me with 1, – no more than 2 sentences as to how I assisted with your efficiency or productivity. (click on email above). THANK YOU!!

2. A thought that I want to share ~ extrapolated from “Keeping the Sabbath Wholly” by Marva Dawn is this: Do take time to “REST” on Sunday. [Refresh, Regroup, Refocus, Recharge your energies]…get off the merry-go-round of noise and connections. Then – enjoy the benefit of your “REST” on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday! THEN for Thursday, Friday, and Saturday — anticipate the coming “REST“!

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“Timed Productivity” ~ Let’s Color – (14 Mar 2019/The Thursday BLOG) #11/52

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  1. Work happy – use your favorite colors to add easily recognizable colors for people, projects, groups, different location or work sites, priority designation, your children (chores; school-after school programs-sports).
  2. Make use of an old i-pad to set up a family calendar center – – on your refrigerator! Color for each family member. This idea can be extended to the office for your Department and work project assignments.
  3. Use emojis where you can to make things stand-out: birthday cake before person’s name; doctor emoji for medical appointments; a sport emoji for a child’s after school activity.

Want to organize your life: work and /or personal? Even develop a shared grocery list resource? Write and access meaningful notes and instructions. Have a team? This is a fun and easy way to stay on top – click recommendation link –> TRELLO

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WOULD YOU Please ASSIST ME?

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I am back … but, need your assistance (or, you can forward to an interested person). I am going to be developing a mini-course to help YOU stop feeling overwhelmed with what you have to do, need to do, and want to do.  I need YOUR input to develop a product YOU feel is useful to YOU and for YOU.

 Please respond to this question:  “What is your biggest frustration with accomplishing your daily tasks?”  

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Year-End Special – Please Practice

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I ran across this article online – “Surprising Things Ultra Productive People Do Every Day” – by  Dr. Travis Bradberry  WOW  –  The secret!!!

Are you ‘ultra productive’? Or, just struggling not to lose your to-do list; let alone check items off?

If you follow me via my daily Facebook and/or LinkedIn tips or even visit my coaching website — you will not be surprised by Dr. Bradberry’s points.   I, too, have been saying the same thing.  His article has thus far received 7,016 likes —YES ~ 7, 016.  BUT, who is doing what either of us says??

Newsflash – if you do, you can be!

Set that goal for 2017 – be ‘ultra productive’.

  • Fight doing what seems to be ‘urgent’. That ‘fight’ makes you let go of the important – life/job/client sustaining goals.  Delegate!!
  • Only give your attention once [ 1x ].  Act, an keep moving.
  • “Eat the Frog”!  By doing the hardest (for whatever reason) task, first; you now free yourself to do the things that interest you. And your elephant has left the room.
  • Do not multitask – you miss stuff and worse — you do not know it!  And, then it is too late.
  • Prepare for tomorrow – today, before you leave your job or business.  Know why you want to return.  Return with answers to a challenge.  This give you PURPOSE.
  • Agenda – have and use one. [your day; meetings; phone calls]
  • Say “No”.
  • Check your email at designated times – stop constantly interrupting yourself.
    • Set alerts for important vendors, clients, customer
    • Prioritize messages by sender
    • Save rest of email for a later stopping point
  • Use technology.

Practice these steps, starting now through the end of the year.  Head into the new year with your defined ‘purpose of efficiency’!

3 Smart Strategies to Successful Prioritizing – (Priority Blog 3)

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Prioritizing – tired of missing the mark?  The key lies in dismissing an element and working with the 3 remaining.

The 4 elements are:  Crisis; Work to do; Trivial Work; and Time Wasting Work.

Crisis – urgent occurrences that must be attended to {flat tire, you get sick, unannounced visit from Company President, child sick at school – you must go pickup, an accident}. An event you can not ignore or put off.

Work to do – an important portion of your life and day {contact clients, do the department budget, draft company newsletter, tasks that are significant to your objectives – no matter what you occupation}.  The planning and building blocks of and for your day.

Trivial Work – Though necessary – you spend way more time than you should {mail, phone calls, e-mails, general interruptions into your day (person(s) dropping-in}.  These activities are neither urgent nor important – they should be small fillers into our “work to do” — but, often they become ‘your day’!!

Time Wasting Work – put a stop to this 4th item – {busy work, phone games, sports following [especially at a particular play off time], TV}.  This is the land of distraction and waste.

When you spend your majority of hours doing the “Work to do” items, you will be very successful in establishing and completing your priorities.

And, the castor oil is “Urgent versus Important“.  You have heard this before but, I hope that you have a more workable context that you can apply to your life and … now, succeed.

 

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