30 days: Change your habits, Change your life

And don’t
forget to schedule in some free time, relaxation time,
like power
naps, reading, meditation, etc. and some buffer time for emergencies
too. I also take 15 minutes every day to plan my next day. In this
way, I give my subconscious mind a chance to work on it already
while I sleep. This works! When I start the next day I don’t have to
think much: I just go to work.
Some more time-saving tips:
• Make a to-do list with date and the time the task takes.
• Limit your phone calls to five minutes per call.
• Be aware of the result you want for each call that you make.
• Work against time and you’ll get your work done faster (set an
alarm clock and work against it).
• Write three things you want for the next day each evening and list
them in order of priority.
• Create blocks of time (90-minute blocks).
• Track your time. Take a look at how you are currently using your
time by tracking your daily activities.
• Do the unpleasant things first.
• Stop being busy and go for results.
Be careful with the following time robbers:
• Lack of information for completing a task.

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• You do everything yourself (Is delegating an option?).
• You get distracted easily (Focus and set boundaries!).
• Your phone calls are too long (Put a five-minute limit).
• You spend a lot of time in searching for files (Get organized!)
• You keep doing things the same way and don’t realize that there
could be a more efficient way of doing it.
• You think you have to be reachable all the time and everywhere
(Really?).
So what are you going to do next? 
Will you insist on the excuse
that you have no time
or will you start making time with one little
thing at a time and experience the change for yourself? What are
you going to do? Remember, it’s all about decisions and habits!
Action Step:
Write down five things you will start doing NOW!
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23
Start to get organized
Organizing is what you do before you do something,
so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.
—A.A. MILNE
For every minute spent organizing,
an hour is earned.
—ANONYMOUS
Are you too busy to get organized? You are surrounded by
mountains of paper and have post-its all over your table. And you
feel you are really busy, but you just can’t breathe and you just can’t
handle your work even if you do extra time?