Time Management In An Instant by Karen Leland and Keith Bailey
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Posted by Colin Harvey Jul 20, 2009 |
You are finally sitting down to finish that smoking-hot book proposal you’ve been working on. Five minutes in, your ten-year-old comes into your writing space asking if he can have cake for breakfast and an urgent instant message from your spouse pops up on your desktop.
Left unchecked, distractions (pleasant or otherwise) can rob you of your focus—a key ingredient in your ability to write. How much of your valuable creative time and writing energy is taken up with trivial distractions (cleaning out your pencil cup, surfing the Web, watching TV) that have no positive long-term impact on your goals, but do have a negative short-term effect on your productivity and sense of accomplishment?
Resist the lure of the trivial by using a priority system based on achievement and importance, not crisis and time sensitivity. Here’s how: Write down and review all the items on your to-do list for the day. Next, determine which items would move you closer to achieving your goals as a writer. Assign those items an “A” priority—regardless of how time-sensitive or urgent they may or may not be. Every workday for the next week do at least one “A” priority item from your list. At the end of the week, you will have focused your energy (five times at least) on achieving your artistic objectives.
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Karen Leland and Keith Bailey are the bestselling authors of six books including Time Management In An Instant: 60 Ways to Make the Most of Your Day. For more information please contact: kleland@scgtraining.com
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