Time Management Tip - Make An Appointment With Yourself
Posted on November 8, 2007 - Filed Under Self Improvement
To be successful today, means that you must manage tomorrow and tomorrow’s tomorrow. The 21st century has a plethora of tools to make self-management much easier. However what ever tool that you use, you need to take the following action:
Make an appointment with yourself.
When you take the action to schedule time with yourself, you must also adopt some additional tactics.
- Do not take any phone calls
- Do not open your emails
- Do not make an appointment with a real person
- Make sure that you use your strategic plan
- Work off a list that is aligned to your plan and current marketing goals, sales goals and revenue goals
- Complete at least one task
- Transfer the completed task or goal to your goal summary sheet
- Do not leave the appointment early
Just think how you would feel if someone took a phone call during your appointment or was reading email. How effective would that meeting be?
Are you any less important than your clients or prospects? So why would you take any actions that you diminish your own value?
Once you begin to make a habit of scheduling appointments you will begin to see that dreaded To Do pile reduce. And, you will have additional time within that appointment to make those necessary follow-up calls to increase your sales.
Several of my clients now make scheduling an appointment with themselves a weekly habit. Their results include:
- Billing records that go out within 5 days of job completion
- Strategic goals that are reviewed and updated weekly
- Calls to old customers to reconnect that have lead to additional sales
- Calls to old leads that have generated increase sales including for one client $15,000
- Better business weekly activity due to having more quality planning time
Take action right now and begin to schedule an appointment with yourself unless of course you enjoy chaos.
Would you like to take control of your time? Are you tired of not getting things done on time or on budget? Do you truly know how to write goal statements that are executable, reinforce your long term desires and work within your limited time?
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Leanne Hoagland-Smith, M.S. is nationally recognized business author, speaker and Indianapolis business coach. She focuses on leveraging human capital for sustainable transformational change.
Tags: business coach, Leadership, self leadership, time management, time management training
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