Schedule your key priorities first
09/04/08 10:08 Filed in: Self-management
| Schedule
You’ve
gotten away for a bit and identified some key
priorities, including spending more time with
family, regularly getting exercise, and getting
coaching each week.
But when you come back, you hit reality—271 emails your inbox, 11 meetings to attend in the next week, 2 unexpected projects to complete by Wednesday. You have to deal with reality, so you respond to your email, attend the meetings, and complete the projects—only to find that while you have spent more time with family, you haven’t gotten any exercise or coaching.
This doesn’t feel good.
What can you do? Schedule time each week for each of your key priorities first. Then schedule time for your email, meetings, and projects. In other words, don’t schedule time for email before you schedule time for getting coaching and getting exercise.
Discipline yourself to do this. Doing this will help you stay focused on your key priorities.
But when you come back, you hit reality—271 emails your inbox, 11 meetings to attend in the next week, 2 unexpected projects to complete by Wednesday. You have to deal with reality, so you respond to your email, attend the meetings, and complete the projects—only to find that while you have spent more time with family, you haven’t gotten any exercise or coaching.
This doesn’t feel good.
What can you do? Schedule time each week for each of your key priorities first. Then schedule time for your email, meetings, and projects. In other words, don’t schedule time for email before you schedule time for getting coaching and getting exercise.
Discipline yourself to do this. Doing this will help you stay focused on your key priorities.