‘5 Simple Ways to Get Your ‘To- Do’ List Done’
There are many business owners that no matter how hard they work, they just can’t get enough of the important tasks done. Is your ‘to-do’ list so long that it makes it near impossible to ever finish it?
Do you feel frustrated and totally overwhelmed because you know it is a never-ending battle that you’ll always struggle to overcome? By changing the way you do things, you can accelerate your results and achieve your bigger goals.
Daryl is your typical entrepreneur. He has an idea a minute and can only focus for extremely short blocks of time. You’d be lucky to keep his attention for 5 minutes. Daryl was always ‘gonna’. He was ‘gonna’ do this and ‘gonna’ do that. He had fantastic ideas however they were never ‘gonna’ come to fruition because he couldn’t focus long enough to take the necessary action. All his ideas were spinning around in his head.
Here’s one way that can help you tame the mess on your desk:
# 1 Write everything down
Every time he had an idea he had to write it down. If it wasn’t a high priority it was filed in the ‘Ideas’ folder.
# 2 Focus on the top 3 Priorities
These were his ‘must-do’s’ for that week. There was no point looking any further ahead than a week as Daryl was an ‘in the moment’ person. Once the top 3 priorities were completed he could then reprioritise his ‘to do’ list and choose the next 3.
# 3 Delegate
Daryl had to identify anything and everything that he could delegate to someone else. He didn’t have employees so it meant he had to pay other people to help him.
# 4 Defer anything that could wait
Tasks on his ‘to do ‘ list that didn’t have to be completed that week were planned in his diary to do at another time.
#5 Blocked time out to do the work
Most people mistakenly keep their ‘to do’ list separate from their diary. They only enter appointments in it and the ‘to-do’ list is somewhere else. Daryl blocked time out in his diary to get the work done.
The Final Word
It’s so easy to get caught up in the little things in your business which actually have a major impact on your productivity and your profits. Messy desks, lack of systems, personal disorganisation, people problems and a range of other easily rectified problems. If that’s you then make sure you get a copy of “The Productivity and Profit Home Study System”. It will show you exactly how to free up your time, organise your systems and run your business much more effectively and profitably. You can read the success stories and get your own copy at http://www.productivityqueen.com/profit.html.
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Lorraine Pirihi, The Productivity Queen, is Australia’s leading Productivity Specialist and creator of “The Productivity and Profit System TM” the complete one-on-one training program for solopreneurs and small businesses that shows business owners exactly how to work less and earn more! To receive your F.R.E.E. CD & Report “3 Steps to Dramatically Reducing Your Workload and Stress While Maximising Your Profit$! ($77 value) go to www.productivityqueen.com.
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