I've been reading Tim Ferriss' book the 4 hour week and am convinced I'm ready for what he's talking about. So quarter of the way into the book I've already made some substantial decisions to pave the way forward for the next five years of my life and I'm impressed. Here's some of the tiny things I've done;
1. changed the word efficient to effective
2. stopped trying to cram more into my time
3. changed my hours (down)
4. stopped talking about doing what I 'want' to do and now I'm going to what 'excites' me.
The next chapter is dreamlining ....
So where in the world are you going?
Check out Tim's website
here.
No matter how many courses you do, you still don't get the time management mastered? Why is that?
Generally its because one way of time management doesn't suit everyone. Each course you do, is another person's methodology which suits a percentage but not all.
So what do you do? Your choices are;
1. hire an assistant that knows how to manage a boss without overiding the boss
2. work out your methodology and document it in simple brief terminology so you can remind yourself of it quickly
Still not convinced! try documenting your methodology and then fine tune it to how it should work.
So once you have this worked out, there is still another important point to add;
1. if you hire an assistant - you must hand over control, no point doing this if you can't hand over control
2. once your methodology is documented - you must be consistent and disciplined.
Here's a brief sample of a time management methodology;
1. check emails every 45 minutes
2. plan the next week out in your diary
3. make calls at 2pm each day
4. receive calls between 10am and 2pm each day
and so on ...
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