30 days: Change your habits, Change your life

THEN READ CLOSELY
NOW, because I’m especially talking to YOU
!
It’s not that you are too busy to get organized, it’s because you are
not organized that you are so busy! And to make it worse: 
Being
busy doesn’t mean that you are effective! Just because you
have the messiest table in the office, doesn’t mean you are the
one who works hardest.
There are studies that today’s executives spend between 30% and
50% of their time searching for paperwork! Can you believe that?
So, my overwhelmed worker, go on reading and TRY OUT these
little tips, as they can change your life! I have been there and I
turned it around using the little tips below:
• Spend the first 15 minutes of your working day prioritizing what to
do.
• Spend one hour a week organizing and filing papers.

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• Spend 15 minutes a day throwing away papers and clearing away
your desk.
• Spend the last 15 minutes of your working day to go through your
tasks for tomorrow. What’s important? What’s urgent?
• Use your e-mail inbox as a to-do list. Tasks solved get archived
and tasks unsolved stay in the inbox.
• If there are any e-mails and tasks that you can do in less than five
minutes, always do them right away! ALWAYS!
• Don’t accept any new tasks until you are in control.
• Do the job right the first time, so that it doesn’t come back to haunt
you and cost you more time later.
Do you remember that typical colleague who always completed his
work fast, but not thoroughly and then during every step of the
process you had to go back to him for more information? Instead of
doing it well one time with all of the correct documentation which
takes 15 minutes, he rushed it in five minutes, and later, you had to
go back to him thrice, thus losing another 30 minutes. So instead of
15 minutes, he actually took 35 minutes to complete the task. Do it
right the first time!
Like everything else in this book, saying “That won’t work for me”
doesn’t count as an excuse! Try it for at least two weeks and if it still
doesn’t work for you, write me an email and complain to me!