How is your work-day arranged? Is is a mish-mash of frenzied and disorganized activity, with calls here, emails there, appointments here, and something else there? If you have a secretary or VA, you probably don't experience this... if you do have this experience, it's time you got yourself new staff!
Try organizing your daily activities in an orderly manner... consolidate and group activities that are similar so you can move smoothly from one task to the next, without the annoyance of constant stoppings and startings and interruptions. Because when this happens, this is when things fall through cracks and you become forgetful!
For example, have you got a lot of calls to make? Don't spread them out or put them off... list them and make all your calls at the same time. Do you need to go out to the post office and bank? Combine these activities with other necessary errand trips so you don't have to keep going in and out.
Go through the clutter on your desk before doing your filing - team these two activities up so that one flows to the next. This will enable you to keep your paperwork filed and up to date.
Pick the mornings or the afternoons for any appointments so you have in place a routine and you know that you will have time to concentrate on tasks without interruptions. Or if you are like me, you can pick "days" that are put aside for certain activities - and you do nothing else except the allotted activity! Of course, you do have to be flexible!
Look at what you do each day and each week - I'm sure you will find other ways of streamlining your activities so your days are clutter and stress-free!
Terri Levine
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