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• Managers,
• Team Members,
• Entrepreneurial CEOs,
• For Money Bloggers,
• etc.

And it can be applied to business- , job-, and personal-life equally well.

“The goal of that exercise is to get into the habit of focusing on the important tasks.”

1. Determine what kind of repetitive, atomic tasks drive your output respectively bring you closer to your goal on a daily basis.

With atomic task I mean something that cannot be broken down any further.

E.g. a cold call to a potential prospect could be such a task, or the collection of a single email address from a shopper in your store, … But not something like opening a new store, because that requires many tasks performed by many people to make it happen.

This exercise is about your life, your responsibilities, and dreams.

For example:

• The more cold calls, the more appointments.
• The more comment on other Blogs, the more traffic, which drives your advertising revenue.
• The more submissions to more Blog Carnivals, the more back links, etc.
  (no spam as a result of this exercise, please. you need to remain relevant to the carnival)
• The more social bookmarking, the more traffic, etc.
• The more articles, the more traffic to your web site.
• The more you start conversations, the easier it becomes for you to talk to strangers.
• etc.

Now commit yourself to a plan and decide how many of those activities you need to perform every single day. Excuses are not allowed. This little list has to become your bible for the next 2 weeks. Or you can make such a bible for your contractors and employees to show them what you expect.


2. Completing the tasks on that list should become your highest priority.

As I said this is not sophisticated time management here. This is a simple exercise that helps you getting into the habit of focusing on the important things.

It also will show you something else. If you are getting tired of writing 25 comments on other Blogs and would rather like to do market research instead and work on a new product. (I just take the Internet business example here). Then it's the perfect time for outsourcing such repetitive an activity.

If you stick to it, you'll be happier and more relaxed very soon, because you are pushing your business drivers forward and you certainly feel satisfaction by sticking to your plan and accomplishing your little, but important mini goals.

You'll also see that you don't miss the activities that used to become excuses in the past.

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I wish you a very nice weekend.

Yours
John W. Furst