Personal Productivity Tips.
Those Professionals Who Practice Them
Can Go From Good to Great

Click through to the pages and you will find a practical, "put it into practice" reference library. The five day questions, suggestions and invitations to experiment were written to be used for at least a year.

This can be your personal productivity program. Don't rush. It's all about achieving greater effectiveness and it will take some time.

If you put into practice even some of the strategies contained on this site, you will be a different leader one year from now.

• You will be more satisfied and effective.
• You will have accomplished more things that really matter to you.
• You will have improved relationships and more rewarding friendships.
• It's entirely possible that business will be more profitable and your staff more productive. People will look to you as a role model.

Success will be yours because you paid attention to and turned into habits as many as possible of the practical strategies contained here and probably passed them on to your staff and colleagues as well. I wish you every success. Don't hesitate to contact me to discuss any of them.

Personal Productivity Tips

1. Use the 80/20 Principle
   
   

2. Plan Your Day
   
   

3. Conquer Your To-Do List
   
   

4. Harness the Power of Three
   
   

5. Capture Your Thoughts
   
   

6. Saying “No” A Whole Lot More
   
   

7. Be Accountable
   
   

8. Prepare for Meetings
   
   

9. Plan Time for Renewal
   
   

10. Speak With Clarity
    
    

11. Create a Shield to Guard Your Time
    
    

12. Know the Facts
    
    

13. Persevere
    
    

14. Adequately Fund Your Actions
    
    

15. Relieve Yourself of Other Responsibilities
    
    

16. Work With a Great Team
    
    

17. Prepare for People Who Don’t Understand
    
    

18. Let Your Purpose Determine Your Schedule
    
    

19. Schedule a Quiet Time
    
    

20. Don’t Manage Your Image for Others
    
    

21. Reject Busyness as a Bragging Point
    
    

22. Enjoy the Journey
    
    

23. Avoid Using the Word “Should”
    
    

24. Cultivate Good Friendships
    
    

25. Focus on One Person at a Time
    
    

26. Change Pace
    
    

27. Deal With Things as They Come Up
    
    

28. Focus on the Assignment, Not the Work Week
    
    

29. Eliminate Scraps of Paper
    
    

30. Handle Things the Least Amount of Times Possible
    
    

31. If it’s Not an Absolute Yes, it’s a No
    
    

32. Do It Now
    
    

33. Embrace Failure
    
    

34. Group Lesser Tasks
    
    

35. Read Books on Time Management
    
    

36. Make the Tough Decisions
    
    

37. Work With a Coach
    
    

38. Break it Down into Parts
    
    

39. Get Your Finances in Order
    
    

40. Do it, Ditch it, Delegate it or Delay it
    
    

41. Build Character
    
    

42. Celebrate Individual Steps
    
    

43. Practice Time In, Time On and Time Out
    
    

44. STOP
    
    

45. Make a Strategic Alliance
    
    

46. Plan for the Unexpected
    
    

47. Organize Your Files
    
    

48. Space Your Appointments
    
    

49. Accomplish More While Traveling
    
    

50. Create a Not-to-Do List
    
    

51. Ask the “Want to/Need to” Questions
    
    

52. Keep Technology at its Simplest Level