Managing Time For Greater Productivity

These tips will help make your day go more smoothly:

• Get set the night before.
• Review next day’s schedule and place everything you need in one place as close to the door as possible: planner, appointment information, returns you need to make etc.
• Give yourself plenty of time to get places.
• Do “like” things together such as phone calls, emails, errands in one area, etc.
• Break down a big project into smaller segments. Handle only one step at a time.
• Read email once and take immediate action. Treat it just the way you do mail.
• Check your email 2-3 times a day. Keep track of the time you’re on the computer.
• Follow your body clock. More creative in the morning or in the evening? Save difficult projects for the time you are most alert.
• When determining priorities, base the order of the projects by their importance, not the time it takes to complete them.
• List your priorities and focus on the most important ones first. Leave the less important “easy” ones until later.
• Block out time in advance to work on your long-term projects.
• Confirm appointments in advance.
• Estimate the time you think it will take to accomplish a task; then compare it to the actual time.