Getting Things Done!

In this article, I am going to share with you some of my methods of time management (or lack thereof) and how I am able to stay productive. I encourage you to take these ideas, perhaps do some additional research, and ask yourself, "how can I implement changes in my life that will make me more productive"?

One of the things that I have found over the course of building my business is that time management in the classic sense of it just doesn't work well for me.

It is very difficult for me to simply lay out a schedule of, let's say, 8 hours and create 16 30 minute blocks and then fill them in appropriately, and then be productive with my time. Obviously that is an over-simplification of the process, but I think you get the idea.

Instead, I prefer to focus on what I call "action management" instead of "time management".

The way action management works is that I focus on what is important and needs to be done, rather than finding time to do all the things that are possible to do.

For example, if I look at a given time period, let's say, one month, what is important? Perhaps I am going to create a product, and I am going to write 6 chapters in a new book.

Those 2 things are going to be the things that at the end of the month I can say, if I have accomplished them, yes, you've had a productive month.

It won't matter how many emails I've read, how many videos I've watched, how many trainings I've bought, what will matter is, did I finish the product, and did I write 6 chapters in the book.

That's it.

So since that's most important, that's what I'm going to work on first each day. Email can wait. Studying can wait. Reading can wait. Social media can wait. The first things I do each day are the important things.

Here's how that might look:

6 chapters, what if I wrote 2 per week for 3 weeks, then had a week to edit?

Let's imagine a chapter has 5,000 words, I need to write 10,000 words per week. That is 2,000 per day. That might take 2 hours per day.

Then I want to create a product. That is less linear, that might involve something like this:

2 hours of preparation 
10 hours of product recording 
2 hours uploading files, create download page, etc. 
6 hours writing sales letter 
4 hours writing email campaign for the product

So that gives me 24 hours.

Let's again imagine 3 weeks, so that's 8 hours per week, which is 2 hours per day for 4 days per week.

So with both goals, that is 4 hours per day.

So my days could look like this:

7:30 - 9:30 write 2,000 words in book 
9:30 - 10:00 break 
10:00 - 12:00 work on product 
12:00 - 1:00 lunch

That leaves me 4 hours for answering emails, checking social media accounts, and driving traffic. Realistically, I don't need that much time for those, so I can quit early most days.

By the way, do you like this method?

I do. It's basically what I do each day (the goals are different, but the time management is very much like this each day).

I suggest you give it a try!

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