1.  Your Time Management Style

     How do you operate? How do you organize your day ? Are you in fact organized ? These questions and others like them are ones you should ask yourself and address. The Power Time System has a definite approach to Time Management. A lot of people have been through our System and have done very well with it. Some people have not. It’s important that your style, or lack of one meshes with ours. You will be working with us over a period of time. This time you spend working with us and our System is valuable personal time, as all time is. You want to make the most of this time and the best way to do this is to be in sync with how we are approaching time management. We will in effect be managing your time for awhile and you will reap the most rewards if you feel comfortable working with us and feel comfortable with our style.

2. Hold Regular Meetings

      Hold Regular Meetings with yourself is the full concept we want to offer here. It sounds funny but you should hold a meeting with yourself on a daily basis. It’s a time when you go through the day and take a look at what you did, didn’t  do and what you could of done differently to get better results. This is done without the computer on,, without taking notes, it’s informal, all done in your head. This is one time where we suggest you get it off the page and back in your head. I usually do it in the car on the way home or when I’m watching T.V., or out for a walk, or working out or when I’m doing a task that does not require a lot of brain power. As you can see, it can be done pretty well anytime.

    The main focus of my meetings with myself is to question how effective was I in controlling my day, I compare what I wanted to get done and what I in fact got done. I’m at the point where I know what I should of gotten done, I clearly know that, within a small range of being right or wrong what  my top A priorities are, knowing if I was on target or not each day is a fairly easy task. This is not s beat yourself up session, but you should hold yourself to task, sometimes. Other times, when you did well in a day, saying so is not a bad way to go. You want to accomplish something in these meetings. What went well, why it went well and repeat the reason it well. The same goes in reverse , why did you not accomplish your goals that day , what were the reasons, and what will we do to not repeat the same mistakes.

  These meetings are as short or as long as you want or need. I find I have several short ones through out the day. There helpful and help keep your eye on the ball

3. Planning to Avoid Management by Crisis

    Sounds pretty obvious but this issue creeps up on us all too often. It would be unrealistic to say that there are not  some  things that pop up and we have to deal with them on the spot, management by crisis in other words. These situations are not the real problem, the real problems  are the situations that we could of controlled but didn’t. 

The situations   we knew about and did nothing to plan for and organize for. These situations that we know about and do nothing about until they are on top of us are the ones that stress us out the most. Deep  down inside we know we should of, could of planned better and we didn’t, it is these repeat offenders that wear on us the most. It’s the mental stress that not being better prepared for potential management by crisis situations that puts a great deal additional unwarranted stress and strain  on us daily.

    Be on the lookout for crisis situations that occur on a regular basis and address these in your  Time Activation and Prioritizing schedule.

  4. Where Is Your Comfort Zone ?

    What’s the point of being in the game if you do not enjoy it? There has to be a point where you say enough is enough. We can only do so much and then we have to regroup, recharge and start again. You have to find out where your limits are and then how  far you can and what to go and then work within those limits. We all start to run into problems when we set unrealistic goals, don’t obtain them, then get frustrated and stressed out at our lack of success. You may be very productive at 45 hours of professional work a week but do not do well over 50 hours. Each of us is different, find out when you do your best work and work within this frame work.

 

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