Time management II

Advantages of Time Management: 
gain time  / motivates and initiates / reduces avoidance / promotes review / eliminates cramming / reduces anxiety

BODO SCHEFFER  

Bodo Sheffer’s name is well known is Germany today. The Germans talk about ‘the phenomenon pf Bodo Scheffer’. He says the following about himself, ‘Notes had existed long before Mozart, what he created from them for human kind is what matters’. So, Scheffer was named ‘financial Mozart’.

1. The Clock & The Compass

2. Urgent Vs Important

3. A, B, C, D

4. Weekly Planning

5. The Bucket List

6. 5 Spheres Of Life: Health, Job, Finance, Emotions, Family

7. First Put Big Stones

8. Long-Term & Short Term Goals

9. Article About You

10. Relaxation day

A Urgent + important	B Strategically important
C Urgent + unimportant	D Not urgent + unimportant

BRIAN TRAICY

ONE CAN AND MUST LEARN BUSINESS

You don’t have to think about the past. We don’t live in it. Only future makes sense to us, which we build for ourselves.

His father was a carpenter. His mother was a teacher. The Traicies could hardly make a living, and couldn’t even think of sending their son Brian to high school. His memories of that time are limited by urgent sense of hunger as a result of malnutrition. To survive Brian got employed right after he had finished college. He was insurance and sales agent and delivery boy.

It was then, but now he is milliard-rich, has worlds recognition and fame. Brian Traicy was included in top ten of the world most popular lecturers in the field of business problems. His annual audience comprises 250,000 people. He consults such clients as IBM, Ford, McDonnel, Douglas. About 30 Traicey’s books more than 200 couching video and audio programs have been published. Among then are “Basic point” and “Utmost success”, “100 absolutely unpredictable lows of business success”, “Eat this frog”. His company “Brian Traicy international” owns subsidiaries in 31 countries of the world.

21 Great Ways To Manage Your Time Brian Tracy

Tip 1 - Make the Decision to Manage Your Time

Simple but so true.

So the very first step you must take if you want to manage your time more effectively is to decide that you will. Until you decide that you will carefully plan out your day and stay focused on your most important, highest payoff activities, it is not going to happen.

As Brian Tracy points out, you must be self disciplined and I do like his definition:

"Self discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do when you should do it whether you feel like it or not."

So can you make yourself do what you should do or do you allow yourself to be distracted?

Or perhaps you are not even sure what your most important activities are to meet your goals?

Brian Tracy's "21 Great Ways To Manage Your Time" gives you the techniques to help you to set goals and define priorities.

Tip 6 Use the Law of Forced Efficiency

I had not heard of this law before but it recognises that you only have the time to do the most important things.

When you are under real pressure, your are very focused on what is most important and you ignore the unimportant tasks quite naturally. It gets more difficult when theer is a lot you could do but you are sure what you should do.

This is where the law of forced efficiency comes in because it forces you to answer four questions: What is the highest use of your time? what brings the highest return?

Why are you on the payroll? If you are the managing director, first and foremost it is to do the work of the managing director and accept full responsibility for the financial performance of your business.

What can you and only you do, that if done well, could make a real difference?

Having answered the first three questions, what is now the most valuable use of your time?

Now that you have identified the tasks that matter most, it comes back to self discipline. While I think about it Brian Tracy has a short audio program on the miracle of self discipline. This isn't in my collection yet but I think a version of it soon needs to be. It is also included as a bonus in Brian's Flight Plan promotion which looks an excellent deal.

Tip 18 Set Clear Posteriorities

A new word on me until I listened to "21 Great Ways To Manage Your Time".

Brian Tracy defines priorities as tasks you will do more of and sooner.

Posteriorities are the opposite - tasks you will do less of and later.

While the language seems strange this is such an important point.

To do something new or to do more of something you must create space for it.

An hour spent on one task means an hour less to spend on other tasks.

So if you are going to do more at work, does that mean an hour less at home? An hour less for "you time"? Or does it mean that you will stop doing something that you already do.

Not identifying your posteriorities is a major reason why people feel overwhelmed.

So what will you stop doing? What tasks can be done by somebody else? What activities aren't worth doing at all?

● The 80/20 Rule

● The rule of 72 hours

● Eat as frog every morning