You must plan to get to practice
I was trying to say “communicate this to your family.” at the end but I cut myself off. You get the picture. Do it.
Get Your Schedule Straight
On November - 28 - 2009
I was trying to say “communicate this to your family.” at the end but I cut myself off. You get the picture. Do it.
On target advice. Schedules are great ways to help others understand and respect your time, and they're a great tool to help discipline yourself to focus on your priorities. In a distracting world like we live in, communicating and acting on priorities is a continuous, but worthy challenge. Hey Patrick, 2 goals and an assist! You're kickin' it my friend! Phil
Extremely important. We do have to treat “our appointments” as appointments, just like a doctor appointment – inflexible, and we are doing it come hell or high water! If not, the time – days, weeks, months, years – just get away from us and we accomplish nothing.
thanks for the reminder.
kat
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Great reminder for laying the groundwork for scheduling in and having both prioritization and control of our life's purpose, goals, and fun times! A solid time foundation is essential and thank-you for an excellent post.
No Kidding Kat, Thanks for the thoughts. We wouldn’t pull a no-show for the Dr. Why would we for ourselves?
Discipline, Yep avoided that for long enough. Crap gotta get the schedule drilled-home!
Hi Dr. Linda, Thanks for the advice. It is crucial to keep those things in order.
Thanks Phil, Man you are awesome for blowing this up on twitter.
Great Post Pat!
We must put a high value on our time and honor it. We need what I call boundaries/time frames for tasks and people. Working in day tight compartments also helps to eliminate stress. If people would follow you advice they would score a lot more!
And when they do that the Cha-Ching buzzer goes off!
Thanks for your leadership!
You have a choice so, make it a better than terrific day!
Terry
No Kidding Terry! Thanks for pointing out the correlation between how organized our time is and the sound of “cha-ching.” It helps me remember why I keep priorities and schedules straight.
Hey Patrick…another great post! I believe that it is so easy to “put the big rocks” in the jar first and then you can't fit in what is really important. Making sure that you fit in the highest priority items first ensures that you can keep moving forward and then fitting in the other things always happens more naturally because they are usually the things that are screaming for our time.
Having the motivation and creating the time to do the most important things does give us both energy and freedom…and, the more we do it, the more of both of these things we get.
Thanks…nicely done!
Bruce
Right on Bruce! I like that analogy. Thanks for your thoughts on scheduling and keeping priorities in line.
You always have the good way of putting things in perspective.