Time Management : Set Priorities to Get the Right Things Done

PRIORITIZE YOUR TIME

disappear on your desk and can even be thrown
away by mistake.
Day planners from Franklin Covey and other
time-management presses, such as Day-Timer,
are great organization tools, as are most pre-
printed portable calendars. Keeping to-do lists
on your personal digital assistant ( PDA) or cell

UNFINISHED BUSINESS

Once you’ve decided to manage your

time better, start by making a list of

all your unfinished business. Write

down every outstanding item—all that

to-do stuff floating around in your

brain—even if it’s more than a hun-

dred items: picking up your dry clean-

ing, purging old files, researching new

ideas, and so forth.

Most people feel overwhelmed by the

sheer number of items on that page—

sometimes there are so many that

you’d need to be superhuman to get

it all done. The first step is to accept

that some of the items won’t ever get

done without help. The second step is

to prioritize the list and set a deadline

for yourself. And finally... just do it.

SOURCE:Get Organizedby Ron Fry (Thomson

Delmar Learning, 2004).

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