Making the most of time requires a commitment from you to work at scheduled times on large tasks. Most of the important works you do require schedule time to complete. Your ability to create and carve out these blocks of high value, highly productive time, is central to your ability to make a significant contribution to your work and to your life.
Thoughtfulness may be defined as a careful concern for the secondary consequences of each decision and each action. This is the essence of strategic thinking.
FIND TIME FOR THE BIGGEST TASK
Successful people set aside a specific time and period each day to phone prospects. Rather than procrastinating or delaying on a task that they don’t particularly like, they resolve that will make calls for one solid hour between 10 and 11 AM and they then discipline themselves to follow through on their resolutions. Many business executives set aside a specific time each day to call customers directly to get feedbacks. Decide to focus on your most important task until completion, ignoring every distraction.
CREATE EXACT TIME
While some people allocate specific 30-60 minutes time each day for exercise, other people read great books 15 minutes each night before retiring. This way, over time, they eventually read dozens of the best books ever written. The key to the success of this method of working within specific time segments is for you to plan your day in advance and specifically schedule a fixed time for a particular activity or task. This single action can change your life forever. You make your appointments with yourself and then discipline yourself to keep them. You set-aside thirty, sixty, and ninety-minute time segments that you use to work on and complete important tasks.
CREATE PRE-PLANNED PERIODS
Loads of highly productive people schedule specific activities in pre-planned time slots all day long. These people build their work lives around accomplishing key tasks one at a time. As a result, they become more and more productive and eventually produce two times, three and five times as much as the average person.
