HOW TO GET THE MOST OUT OF YOUR DAY?

Success is intentional, to achieve take it one day at a time.

If we all have 24 hours every day. Then how come some people seem like they have more hours than the rest? The answer to that I found from observing and reading successful people’s habits and through attending seminars, workshops such as goal setting. I learnt how successful people behave around time, they are methodical and pragmatic.

It was clear is how successful people choose to use their time and most importantly the commitment and dedication they invest to execute a task at hand. Most of the people I leant about they are entrepreneurs. The challenge in entrepreneurship is that you must control how you spend your day. Every win and every mess hit home faster and that could be the end of you. The most important thing now is to know and to understand about any given day is that you have 24 hours with two kinds of events and activities to manage, the PLANNED AND UNPLANNED. Our greatest struggle as people, we want to live a balanced life and what I have learnt about life is there is no such, we can never have a balanced life, we only juggle priorities. What is important today might not hold the same value over time, so it’s not a bout balance, it’s about priorities.

What is your priority today? What are we dedicating our time on?

It a choice you need to make and make every day. What is clear is that you must be in-charge of the day and control over the events that affect you. “EITHER YOU RUN THE DAY, OR THE DAY RUN YOU”

JIM ROHN

HOW TO GET THE MOST OUT OF YOUR DAY? THERE ARE FOUR PRACTICAL THINGS TO BE DONE DAILY AND TO BE DONE WELL.

# GOAL FOR THE DAY # GOOD PLANNING # PRIORITISING # and CLEAR ACTION

LET’S UNPACK THEM QUICKLY:

GOAL:

What are you trying to achieve for the day and this could be linked to your greater vision, hence it is important to understand the WHY, the reason behind the day’s activities.

GOOD PLANNING:

When the goal is clear, you can begin to set out the HOW to achieve the goal. Remember planning is about understanding your goal and setting out what needs to be done (wish list & to do list) and what resources you will need to do so.

It can start as a yearly, quarterly, monthly, weekly to daily goal setting activity. The secret is simplicity.

PRIORITISING

Remember we are juggling priorities of the day so on your to-do-list you need to select what is important for the day and focus on that.

Make sure you’re clear and you make a list that is small and don’t overwhelm yourself

CLEAR ACTION

Once you have a clear to-do-list, you will have to allocate enough time to each task and give it your all. Unfortunately, action is the only thing that will bring you closer to the goal.

TIPS TO A PRODUCTIVE ACTION

# Have an early start—morning

# Exercise and breakfast

# Eat the frog— do the challenging task first.

# Work 25 min on a task uninterrupted and take a 5 min break. # Set out any extra recourses and references you might need. # Put phone off or on silence and have the courage to say sorry I can’t talk or see you now.

For continued productive days and guaranteed success it is important for you to find your style a system that works for you and to build your own productive habit.