It's National Time Management Month - What are you going to Plan? Do? Track?

 
​FEbruary has been earmarked as National Time Management month. As such, I thought that it would be appropriate to focus several of our posts specifically to time management and personal productivity, two key themes as part of the PlanDoTrack Workbook and Planner. Stay tune for posts this month focused on getting your remote workspace more organized (Next Monday February 11th) as well as a number of other time management posts.
Our first post of the month gets you to step back and do a bit of planning BEFORE you embark on your monthly activities. As a former project manager myself, I know how important planning is in creating more focused effort! An old project management adage goes "5 minutes of planning can save you 60 minutes of unfocused effort". 
As much as some things change, many things stay the same, and whether you plan on paper, the back of a receipt or on your phone, planning is planning.
To get you started, here are a couple of questions to consider:

• What's important for you to tackle this month?
• What are the key priorities you want to keep top of mind?
• What will success look like around these key priorities?
• What is the dedicated time you are going to protect to make sure that these priorities do get done?
• What do you need to say no to (by delegating, deferring or saying no) this month?
• What are  you going to track to make sure you are on target?
• Who else do you want to enlist to support you with your key priorities this month?

I'll be doing a few more extra posts this month, focused specifically on time management and personal productivity. I hope you'll join us!

If you have a copy of the PlanDoTrack Workbook and Planner, be sure to check out Section 4 where I include several different tools and resources to support you with prioritizing.

Enjoy!
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton - Potentials Realized
Author of PlanDoTrack (2019), Effective Virtual Conversations (2017) and From One to Many: Best PRactices for Team and Group Coaching (2013)

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