Finding That Extra Time In Your Week
When you hit a crisis or a special event it is amazing that you can find the time to tackle it. Almost from nowhere, you put together a few hours to problem solve. However, in a normal week (ie crisis free) those hours are often buried and never seen in unnecessary interruptions, meetings, and perhaps even general inefficiencies.
Don’t wait for the next emergency, find the time now with these two ways to regain wasted time:
- Analyse Your Calendar – Look back at the last 30 days and see if there was any time wasting. Now look forward 30 days and make the decision today to eliminate any time wasting meetings or catch ups that will not have any consequence if you are in attendance.
- Ask For Help – Check with your Team, as many time wasting activities are invisible to us. So check with your team and see if they can suggest anything you could stop doing or meetings you don’t need to attend.
You could take about 2 to 4 hours a week with some careful thinking.
Justin is the Managing Director of Active Management, which he began January 2004. He offers coaching to businesses worldwide in everything from start up and design to marketing and sales systems. Justin also facilitates four Australian and New Zealand ‘fitness industry roundtables’ events, which allows him to see a huge cross section of business models.