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Effective Time Management Strategies

Chapter 3 Plan Your Time

If you haven’t got the time to do it right the first time,
when will you have the time to do it again?

Schedule Planning Time
Make a weekly planning appointment with yourself.
A great time for this appointment in a typical
workweek is at the end of the week. This will give
you the opportunity to plan the coming week.
Fridays are great. You will leave for the weekend
with a feeling of confidence and arrive Monday with
direction.

For most SME owners that are not used to effective
time management practices, planning takes intense
concentration. That is completely understandable.
Most SME owners are flying in combat. They are
flying by the seat of their pants throughout most of
the day at high speed while being fired at by a
barrage of interruptions, while trying to stay in flight
and navigating their craft. They have a dozen
projects on their minds, fires to extinguish, and new
ideas to implement.

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