Get Motivated Seminars

30 Easy Ways to Save Time and Accomplish More

admin — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 02:26:01 +0000

Make a daily list- last thing at night or first thing in morning. Making a list helps you organize priorities and keeps you on track throughout the day.
File, respond to, or trash mail as you open it. Do not allow yourself to accumulate miles of piles- you’ll just end up sorting through the same papers over and over again.
Eliminate needless interruptions. Close your office door (post a sign saying, “In conference” if you have to). Let your secretary, voice mail or answering machine record your messages, then return calls all at once.
Utilize the “Slingshot Principle” by taking a vacation! There are times when you need to pull back in order to really fly. Burning yourself out is not an effective usage of your time. Some of the greatest ideas and solutions occur to you when you are relaxed and refreshed.
Finish one task before getting involved in another… or at least stop at a natural stopping point. Try to bring closure to tasks or “chunk down” large tasks into smaller components so you work on it a little at a time but are always making progress.
Consolidate errands: Make one shopping trip to go to the dry cleaner, drug store, barber and grocery store… instead of four trips. Organize your route to avoid backtracking. Keep an ongoing list of supplies that you need to eliminate repeat trips for forgotten items.
Clump similar tasks together and do them all at once. It is far more time efficient to make phone calls all at once, then work on all correspondence, then open all mail…. than it is to intermingle these tasks.
Organize living and work spaces. Disorganized space is not just inefficient, it is psychologically exhausting. Pick one area to organize every day for a month. Start with the area that bothers you the most, or if disorganization doesn’t seem to bother you at all, start where you spend the most time. If the very idea of organizing overwhelms you, hire a professional to do it for you.
Listen to teaching tapes in the car. Instead of being stressed out by traffic, you can engage your brain. Learn another language, improve your sales, business and management skills, and master the latest strategies for success by listening to tapes during driving time.
Utilize waiting time. Always keep a book that you have been wanting to read in your car so that you can make good use of the time you spend waiting for appointments.
Invest in the proper tools needed to get your job done more effectively. In the long run, it is far more costly to make do with outdated tools and ineffective equipment than to buy what you need to improve production.
Procrastinate AFTER you finish doing what you want done.
Schedule your recreation time (You can schedule “nothing time” too). Those who work harder on the job than they do on themselves tend to burn out. Remember what you are working for–schedule time with your spouse and children. Pencil in some time for yourself while you’re at it.
Learn to navigate your city better. Finding a new and better route to places you go routinely can save you hours every year.
Shoot your tv.
Read just the first sentence of newspaper paragraphs. This is a common practice of many busy executives. The relevant news is usually summed up in the first sentence of each paragraph.
Minimize schmoozing. Don’t let co-workers waste your time. Schmooze at lunch or during breaks. Tackle your work the rest of the time.
Start a greeting card file. Buy a few dozen birthday, anniversary, get well, thank you and congratulations cards and file them according to occasion. This will save you dozens of trips during the year and assure you of always having card on hand for emergencies.
Shop for gifts year round and start a gift closet. Whenever you see a nice gift item on sale, pick up a few of them and you will always have an appropriate gift on hand.
Utilize delivery and professional services. Ask yourself, “Will doing this cost me more in time than it would in money if someone else did it for me?” If so, pay to have someone else do it and utilize your time more effectively.
If you must have a pet, get a low maintenance pet. Cats are less work than dogs; small birds are less work than cats; fish are less work than birds.
Don’t let clutter accumulate Clean as you go.
Avoid people who “drain” you. It’s good to invest time in people, but there are certain individuals who practically suck the life right out of you. They exhaust you. Identify those individuals in your life and limit your exposure to them.
Exercise for energy. Improve your health and you improve your life, extend your life, and accomplish more with less fatigue. Make time for exercise.
Eat for energy. Eat a variety of wholesome, nutritious foods and resist the temptation to overeat.
Study the habits of productive people. You don’t need to reinvent the wheel. Just do what the wheel-maker does. Observe and imitate the time management experts around you.
Learn to say “NO”. You are not superhuman. There is a limit to your energy and ability to accomplish an endless list of tasks. Say “no” to low priority items. Repeat after me: “It seems like an exciting project and I would love to do it, but I have already committed to another project that is consuming all my free time. Thanks for thinking of me though.”
Develop your film by mail. You’ll save time and money.
Clump annual checkups,dentist, AND renewals together in your birthday month. You’ll never forget annual items if you do them in your birthday month.
Take a speed reading class, and learn to type faster. You can do both on a personal computer. Investing this time now will save you infinitely more time later.

admin — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 02:18:12 +0000

Brother, Can you Paradigm?

admin — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 02:04:43 +0000

Business-ese has become an effective way of distilling complex theories into a more palatable portion. Here are twenty-five of the latest buzzwords that will help you with your “systems thinking” as you strive to become part of the “knowledge sector.”

1. Benchmark: evaluating an organization’s performance by comparing itself to a peer organization.

2. Clean slate: the notion that process improvement starts not with where you are now, but with a blank slate.

3. Corporate anorexia: the dispirited and overworked organization remaining after down-sizing and exodus of their talented and mobile people.

4. Corporate culture: an explicit set of values shared broadly and deeply by people within the company that bonds them together.

5. Empowerment: increasing employee involvement to stimulate initiative and entrepreneurship.

6. Fail forward: failing fast and learning from it so as to make the next and smarter step quickly.

7. Groupware: software that allows companies to streamline business processes, compelling organizations to rethink the way people work.

8. Holistic approach: redefining the entire business process, not just a single function or department.

9. Human dynamics: the framework for understanding people and realizing their potential within an organization.

10. Interdisciplinary: shifting organizational responsibility to enable people to serve customers better and with more cross-training of specialized skills.

11. Lateral thinking: seeking to solve problems by unorthodox means, “outside of the box.”

12. Leverage points: some aspect of a process where small improvements will produce a positive impact on overall performance.

13. Mobilization: the process by which a company and its people are brought to the point where they accept the changes that re-engineering entails.

14. Outside-in approach: defining issues and sorting solutions from the customer’s perspective.

15. Paradigm: a model, standard, or ideal to follow as an example.

16. Purposeful impatience: applauding the new, rough cut ideas and questioning even good performance that involves no bold moves or fast-paced experiments.

17. Re-engineering: the fundamental rethinking and radical redesign of business processes to bring about dramatic improvements in performance.

18. Results-focused: setting specific targets to improve customer service and profitability.

19. Road kill: image for companies that fail to anticipate the future of their industry and are mowed down by the competition.

20. Self-developer: an individual who values independence, dislikes bureaucracies and seeks to balance work with other priorities like family and recreation.

21. Synergy: cooperative interaction among groups or merged parts of a corporation that creates an enhanced combined effect.

22. TCR: (Total Customer Responsiveness) attaching your organization to your customer and moving aggressively to create new markets for them.

23. Value-adding: adding something of importance to the customer that they need, want, and are willing to pay for, that will help the organization maintain differentiation.

24. Voluntary downshifting: the current trend of workers choosing lateral or downward moves in favor of more family time.

25. Wild ducks: innovative employees, usually hired from outside, who have a fresh perspective on the company’s management strategy, business, and customers.

About Get Motivated Seminars

admin — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 02:06:42 +0000

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