Controlling The Clock We suggest you select five or six of these steps a week and include at least one in your Daily Planner List. We've also included A Daily Time Log Sheet for you to print and use diligently to help you further in planning better use of your valuable time. Planning, Daily Take more time for the systematic planning of each day Prioritise an action list each day Make complete use of your planner by planning, recording, cross-referencing Keep long-range, prioritised, written goals in your planner and refer to them each time a daily action list or unassigned action list is prepared (The three types are 1. Time Management, 2. Personal goals with the company, and 3. Personal life goals) Make a list of the "comfort zone" ideas, people, physical locations, reading, actions, and food, etc. to which you gravitate that are inappropriate Do at least three things daily to leave your comfort zone

Planning, Long Range

• By a given date, write, refine and prioritise your unifying principles. Evaluate your personal performance with these principles

• Review the mission and goals of the company and department at designated times

• Write, refine and prioritise personal goals with the company by a given date

• Refine your goals using a standard of excellent performance

• Refine all written goals, making them, so far as possible, specific and measurable

• Plan long-range goals as far into the future as you can anticipate

• Write personal goals with a balanced perspective so that they include the areas of professional, financial, physical/recreational, social, intellectual/cultural and spiritual. Refine and priorities these goals

• Write sub-goals to the life goals by raising the question, "How can I cause each of these goals to happen?"

• Build continuity in goal planning by preparing monthly and weekly goals from long-range goals, and the daily action list from all of these

• Share your goals with others and have them encourage you

• Occasionally ask "What is the greatest threat to my survival professionally, socially, spiritually, financially, intellectually and physically?"

How To Avoid Procrastination

• Set a deadline for each task

• Prioritise an action list every day, seven days a week, in your planner

• Chain yourself to the desk until the overwhelming vital priority is finished

• Plan interruptions away from your vital priority time

• Do the most vital tasks now

• Use your secretary or others to reinforce your vital priorities

• Turn the difficult task into a game

• Select the best time of the day for the type of work required

• Allow some open space for flexibility

• When you bog down, leave the project until your energies are renewed

• Do the most difficult task that is vital first

• Stay with the vital task until it is done

• Don't sit on projects

• Institute a personal quiet hour

Results... Achieving With Goals

• Accept what you cannot change as a fact of life

• Reward yourself when a goal is completed or achieved

• Always ensure that a goal can be achieved

Reducing...Time Wasters And Triviality

• Say "NO" when a request is not vital

• Note and determine what routines might be changed to advantage

• Reduce socialising time

• Limit TV viewing to the "vital few"