Time Killers
Where does the day go?
Keep a journal of your daily activities and the amount of time devoted to each for one full week. At the end of that period, you will learn valuable information about where your precious time is being spent.
Time is your most valuable commodity because once gone there is no getting any of it back — ever. It is arguably more valuable than money because you can hopefully always make more money.
If I know I need to spent a large block of time writing e-mails I schedule it on my agenda and absolutely do not give in to the temptation to work on it at any other time during the week.
One thing I discovered before I switched to this system is that if I am “just checking” e-mail at a time when I really have other things to do it actually takes longer to process all my messages because I’m so pulled into reading mail that I’m not always processing the information quickly
