One of my favorite coaching areas is that of Attention Management (the artist formerly known as Time Management).
Time cannot truly be managed…there are 86,400 seconds in a day and once gone, you cannot recover them. On the other hand, how you spend that time, your attention and focus, can be proactively controlled given that proper personal disciplines and barriers have been established.
All to often, people spend their days hitting the ground running, operating in reactionary mode and being at the mercy of the world and people around them; instead of controlling their activities.
A surefire way to improve your effectiveness is to dedicate time to a daily action plan, either the night or early morning before your committed day starts.
Adding a quiet time or meditation period is a useful tool in this process.
Once you’ve created this daily strategy, draw upon your personal power to make every effort to stick to that plan, no matter what. Sounds easy, does hard!
Further, ensure you include some time slots for handling the unscheduled interruptions that will come, regardless of the boundaries you’ve established!
Give it a try next week, and I’ll bet you’ll see an astonishing increase in productivity…not to mention that you’ll have less stress and feel better!!!
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