12. Use
travel time productively. Driving and
Flying - Turn them into highly productive time. Listen to audio
programs when you are driving. Make it a University on Wheels.
Flying – Plan an agenda for while you are in the air. Make sure you
have everything you need to make it a good flight. Get to work as
soon as you get on the plane. Don’t drink alcohol – drink 2 glasses
of water for each hour you are in the air. On the outbound leg of
the flight do the serious work – on the inbound, read a book because
you aren’t as sharp as the outbound trip.
13. Get better at your key
tasks. The better you get at the important things, the less
time it takes you to do them as before. What one skill if you
developed and did it consistently would have the greatest positive
impact on your career?
14. Work in real time. Develop a sense of urgency.
Pick up the pace. Complete all quick jobs as they come up.
15. Re-engineer your work.
Most work processes are multi – task, multi-step jobs. Many of the
steps are not necessary and all they do is expand the length of time
it
takes to complete the job. Set a goal
to reduce the steps by 30%. Look for ways to cutback and eliminate
steps that aren’t necessary.
16. Re-invent yourself each
year. Once a year you should stand back and look at every
aspect of your life and determine if each item is something you want
to continue doing. Who would you leave behind, where would you live,
look at your finances – how would you design your life?
17. Practice zero based
thinking continually. Is there anything in my life that
knowing what I now know I wouldn’t be involved in if I had to do it
over? Stress is a
big indicator that the item you are
stressed about is something that should be deleted from your life.
18. Set clear abandonment’s. Creative abandonment
of activities that are no longer as valuable as they were when you
first started doing them. Free up your time so you can do the
activities you need and want to do. All you can do is all you can
do. Sometimes the word no can be the best time saver of all.
19. Keep your life in balance. Happy, harmonious,
successful, healthy – don’t get the cart before the horse. Set your
peace of mind, happiness and goals then plan your other things
around those things. Amount of time at home is most important and
Quality of time at work is most important. Don’t waste time at work
– its time you take away from your family. Put people first.
20. Plan every project
carefully. Start each project with a clear definition of
what would be a perfect ending to the project. Make a list of all
the tasks and assign the different tasks to the group, finally,
monitor it closely and be sure it’s on track or ahead of schedule.
Inspect what you expect. What is the worst thing that could go wrong
and then make sure it doesn’t happen! Remember the 6 P rule. (Above)
21. Become intensely action oriented. People are
impatient. Top performers are in constant action towards the goal.
Don’t talk a subject to death. Talking is not action. We only get
paid for results. Decide you are going to move fast and pick of the
pace. The faster you move the better you feel and the more you get
done and the faster you learn and so on…..
First decide what you want in terms of goals and objectives.
Make a list of what you need to do today to achieve your goals.
Organize your list by priority and select your A1.
Begin immediately on your #1 task until its 100% complete.
Repeat to yourself – Do it now, do it now, do it now.
