Decide: Work Smarter, Reduce Your Stress, and Lead by Example by Steve McClatchy

Author:Steve McClatchy [McClatchy, Steve]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781118554388
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2014-01-26T14:00:00+00:00

Make Better Decisions about Your Time

Consider first whether your habits are working for or against you. Do you need to change anything about them? Is there anything you do daily that you could do better, healthier, or more efficiently? If so, changing that habit would be a great Gain task. For example, if you stopped getting fast food on your way home from work every day and started eating healthier at home, your life would probably be better tomorrow than it is today. Your first step might be to stop at the grocery store on your way home today instead. If you are satisfied with your habits and routines, then just be aware of the amount of time that you actually spend on them each day.

Make a to-do list for your daily Prevent Pain tasks so that you don't forget them and wind up procrastinating until the last minute. If you can get them done ahead of time by using your list, then you will be more in control of your time. (You may even avoid late fees on some of your bills!)

Those are the easy things to do. No one has to remind you to put a scheduled client meeting or even a dentist appointment on your calendar, because these things are fundamental; they have a trigger, a deadline, or a scheduled time. But as we know, goals do not have these things. Even if you've identified or written down your goals, you'll never get around to achieving them if you don't commit to a time to work on them. Your time will always go to other things, and you'll push them aside day after day to work on Prevent Pain survival tasks. They have no deadlines, no time when someone will come and ask, “Did you do that yet?”

You cannot accomplish A tasks, or even B tasks, on autopilot. They require your brain to do some quality thinking and work to get them done. Tasks like this even use a different part of your brain: primarily, the prefrontal cortex, where complex mental activity takes place. To get to that place in your brain, you have to stop thinking in survival mode.

This is where your calendar comes in. Developing healthy and efficient habits and using a to-do list are great time and life management skills, but your calendar is the tool you use to stop managing your life and start moving it forward.

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