Concentrate Single-Mindedly CONCENTRATION AND single-handling are essential requirements for all great achievement. Concentration means that once you start on your most important task, you resolve to persevere without diversion or distraction. Your ability to concentrate single-mindedly on the most important use of your time is the number-one requirement for success. You could meet every other...

Delegate to Others ONE OF THE GREATEST time management tools is for you to get someone else to do the task completely. Your ability to delegate lower-value tasks to others who can do them at a lower hourly rate or salary is one of the vital skills of modern management. Delegate everything you possibly can...

Determine Your Key Result Areas PERHAPS THE MOST important key to high productivity is for you to focus and concentrate on the most valuable and important things you can do, all day long. Developing absolute clarity about your key result areas is essential for executive effectiveness and high productivity. Your key result areas are those...

Stay on Track “WHAT IS THE most valuable use of my time right now?” Because it is the most important question in all of time management, ask it over and over again until it becomes an automatic guide that motivates and drives you to focus on your highest-value task or activity. When you organize all...

Set Clear Priorities I HAVE STUDIED time management for more than thirty years, reading hundreds of books and articles on the subject, listening to countless audio programs, and attending semi- nars. Using the ideas that I have assembled, I have written books of my own on time management that are worldwide bestsellers, produced audio and...

Create Your Daily “To-Do” List PERHAPS THE MOST powerful time management tool is a daily list of activities that you create to serve as a blueprint for your day. All successful time managers think on paper and work from a daily list of activities. Just as a pilot uses a checklist before every takeoff, effective...

Chart Your Projects MOST WORK IN business is a series of projects. Your ability to complete projects largely determines your success in your career. A project is defined as a “multitask job.” A project is a result that requires the completion of a series of many smaller jobs. Perhaps the most powerful tool you can...

Make Written Plans ALL SUCCESSFUL TIME managers are good planners. They make lists and sublists to accomplish each major and minor objective. Whenever a new project crosses their desk, they take the time to think through exactly what they want to accomplish, and then write out an orderly list, in sequence, of every step necessary...

Project Forward, Look Backward WHAT IS THE MOST important and valuable work that you do, in any field or profession? It’s thinking ! Your ability to think clearly about what you do and how you do it will have a greater impact on your future results than any other single action you take. There are...

Think About Your Vision and Mission ONE OF THE BEST and most profound books written in the last few years is Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow. His insight is that we need to use two different types of thinking to deal with the variety of situations we face in our daily lives. Fast thinking...