“Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent, and not enough time on what is important.”

Learn the difference between how you’re actually spending your time and how you should be spending your time, between urgent and important. If you want to have Friday reserved as free space, prioritize the things you want to have wrapped up before Friday.

Focus On Priorities

If you want to free up your Friday and have it as a day of uninterrupted time that you can use however you’d like, you have to evaluate your weekly priorities and keep a close eye on your schedule. Avoid to schedule meetings or other important things and keep on the table just casual stuff - a networking coffee get-together for example.

Schedule Intentionally

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<li>Save a canned response so you don’t have to draft the same message over and over again.</li>
<li>If there's a document you're repeatedly drafting, create a template.</li>
<li>Automate the menial tasks you have to complete daily/weekly.</li>
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Find Shortcuts

Maximizing every moment of your day means minimizing any kind of distraction. Find a quite spot away from the office noise and close your inbox tab, to avoid the temptation to check you emails all the time.

 Tune Out Distractions

We all often face the same problem: The workweek drags by at a glacial pace, while the weekend speeds past us before we even realize what's happening. Mathematically, of course, it all makes sense. But what if you could change that?

Tune Out Distractions

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