Time Management - Marc Mancini
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<strong>Time</strong> <strong>Management</strong><br />
emerge from that committee might have an effect on you personally,<br />
should problems arise between you and your superiors.<br />
It’s surprising how often people can be neat and orderly in<br />
their business life but rumpled and disorganized in their personal<br />
life. Sometimes it can’t be helped—family members can alter<br />
your behavior in ways that business colleagues cannot. Still, the<br />
payoff system seems especially good at illustrating how the<br />
principles of business conduct can furnish strategies to improve<br />
your personal life and vice versa.<br />
One last payoff thought: how much do you make, in dollars<br />
and cents, per hour? From now on, when you find yourself truly<br />
wasting time—or letting someone else squander your time—<br />
think of that hourly figure and how the value of your time is slipping<br />
away. Both you and your company benefit from the most<br />
efficient use of your time. And you can measure that value in<br />
actual monetary terms. In fact, your raise may depend upon it.<br />
“Not-to-Do” Lists<br />
Author Michael LeBoeuf offers a fascinating idea that may<br />
serve to free the spirit as well as some much-needed time. His<br />
idea: create a “not-to-do” list, which he believes should include the following<br />
kinds of items:<br />
• All low-priority items, unless you’ve successfully completed all your<br />
high-priority items.<br />
• Anything you could reasonably delegate to someone else.<br />
• Demands on your time from others that are either thoughtless or<br />
inappropriate.<br />
• Any errand that, if ignored, will have minimal consequences.<br />
• Anything you might have done for someone else that the person<br />
should be doing for himself or herself.<br />
There’s a kind of exhilaration in setting down on paper a list of<br />
things you’re not going to do.You can mentally tote up the minutes<br />
you’re going to save by not doing them.The sense of freedom that this<br />
little exercise engenders can work wonders on the subconscious and<br />
can even lower your level of stress.