Management

Whatever your belief, if you think of yourself as an excellent time manager, you will naturally do those things that are consistent with that belief.

If you do not change your beliefs about your level of effectiveness and efficiency, your ability to manage your time will not change, either.

1. Program your mind - Affirm over and over to yourself that "I am an excellent time manager."
2. Visualize yourself as you want to be - Think of yourself as calm, confident, highly efficient, more relaxed, and able to complete large amounts of work in a short time.
3. Act "as-if" - Fake it until you make it.

Know exactly what your values are.

• Why am I doing what am I doing?
• Why do you get up in the morning?
• Why do you do the job you do?
• What is the reason for working where you work?

If you love what you do, and put your whole heart into it, then there is no feeling of stress/burnout.

1. Engage in Self-analysis and Introspection - Errant assumptions lie at the root of every failure.
2. Think Slow - allows you to organize your life most productively, and enables you to achieve the greatest amount of joy, satisfaction, and happiness.

Think Before You Act. Build a Morning Ritual to

• Review your goals
• Build your plan, and
• Measure your progress

True greatness ONLY emerges with Introspection, Retrospection, Solitude, and Contemplation.

Build clarity in your plans.

1. Find - what are the difficulties and obstacles that stand between you and your goal?
2. Identify - The additional knowledge and skills required to achieve the goal.
3. Collaborate - with people, groups, or communities who could help you to achieve your goal.
4. Tag along - of all the people, who can help you to achieve your goal.

The more time you take to think and plan, on paper, the better results you will get, and the faster you will get those results.

Use the ABCDE method of creating and executing a To-Do list.

• A - Must do
• B - Should do - Never do a B task when you have an A task.
• C - Nice to do
• D - Delegate
• E - Eliminate

1. Use the 80/20 rule - If you were called out of town for a prolonged time, which activity must be completed before you leave?
2. The Law of Three - Ask three most important tasks that make valuable contributions to your business/profession/personal growth.

Use a 4-quadrant methodology of Time management.

• The Immediacy quadrant - Tasks that are both Urgent and Important - have long-term consequences if put off.
• The Effectiveness quadrant - Tasks that are Important, but not Urgent.
• The Delusion Quadrant - Tasks that are Urgent, but not Important.
• The Waste Quadrant - Tasks that are neither Urgent nor Important.

Use the 70 percent rule - If someone else can do a particular task 70 percent well, then it is a prime candidate to delegate to that them.

Focus on the most important task, that has maximum benefit. 

• Be a "creative" procrastinator - Be a high producer who procrastinates tasks and activities of low or no value. Low producer procrastinates tasks that have considerable value to the company.
• The Salami Slice method - Eat what you can chew. Break down tasks into slices that you can complete in a focused session.

• Create "Unbroken" 60-90 mins blocks of time
• Don't mix Creative and Administrative tasks - The former requires Slow thinking, and the latter requires Fast thinking.

• Work all the time you work - until you get your most important tasks done.
• Minimize Interruptions - Use the "Do Not Disturb" signboard/signals to avoid interruption.
• Stand-up Immediately - Have the courage to go and ask people "What do I do that waste your time?"

• Do all the similar tasks at the same time 
• Manage your emails and telephone conversations - by answering emails/phone at scheduled times.
• Conduct effective meetings - with a clear agenda and people.

• Resist the temptation to spend time reading things that are not of immediate value or relevant to your life and work.
• Review books carefully before deciding which ones you want to spend time reading.

"Readers are Leaders"

• Schedule time to learn and grow.
• Attend seminars/workshops/conferences by people with practical experience and achievers in their field.

• Declutter your workspace, as it has a psychological impact

The 3 most important things are to install balance and moderation in your life.

1. Quality of your inner life
2. Healthy lifestyle
3. Nurturing relationships