If you don’t schedule your
day, other people and things will.
When I work one-on-one in
intensive coaching with individuals, I invariably ask them to send
me a detailed example of their daily
schedule.
Most don’t have one—even
those who do, don’t have a very specific
one.
Some want to tell me that
they’re too much of a free spirit to schedule their day. Let me
promise you, when you schedule your day, you’ll definitely get more
accomplished. AND you’ll also find that you have more free time
than you can imagine.
Countless people I’ve
interacted with, all the way back to my management days at ATT,
spend an inordinate amount of time in the morning getting ready to
get ready. Not having a plan is planning to
fail.
If you don’t schedule your
day, other people and things will.
98% of the workforce say they
are interrupted at least 3 or 4 times a
day.
The average individual checks
his/her phone 58 times per day.
Distractions can lead to
committing twice as many errors as
usual.
It takes 23 minutes and 15
seconds to fully recover focus after a
distraction.
Here’s a couple of quick and
easy to implement tools to address the lack of
schedule.
Know where you’re going and
what you choose to accomplish.
C6. Before sleep. Hit the
ground running.
Put everything on the
calendar. Even personal issues
There are more strategies
we’ll talk about later, but for now, these 3 things will help you
begin to transmute a chaotic day into an orderly and productive
day.