Productive Day
15 December 2008 in 2008, Discipleship, Ethos, Experience, Leadership, Life, ResourcesI got a whole lot of stuff done today. Sure I started my day an hour earlier but who’s counting?
One of the things I’m trying to do before baby arrives is to create a good deal of margin in my life. Things get so hectic and over scheduled in our world that most of us live edge to edge. In fact if we’re honest we tend to let things bleed over to the next page.
For me I decided that I wanted to be more purposeful in my time-management. I picked up “Time Management from the Inside Out” by Julie Morgenster, scheduled out the coming week in my planner, and then set about working my plan today.
If the rest of the week goes as well as it did today than I am well on my way to managing my time margin allowing me to be more strategic with my minutes and hours.
What helps you manage time most effectively?
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I have really benefited from the book Order from Chaos by Davenport. I have always had to deal with paperwork: sermon and lesson outlines, evaluation sheets from events, or the reports I did for attendance for the church. This book really helped me address that part of time management.
Thanks JD. The next step will be to organize better. I have a “one touch” mail system at the office. I read my mail over the trash can. I touch a piece of mail only once- it then gets trashed, answered, or filed. The problem is that I have no file cabinet or space to file. I have a system but it isn’t up to snuff. I want to tackle the stacks to save some time and to be better.
I’ll check out that book.
Thanks again. Peace!