“There are many disciplines for Time Management,” I said. The group was taking notes. “Which is the most important?”
“OHIO,” shot a voice from the back of the room. “Only Handle It Once.”
“Okay,” I replied. “But who cares? Without this discipline, who cares if I handle a piece of paper once or handle it 50 times?”
“Prioritization?” came another guess.
“And what is it, that makes one task more important than another task?”
“The goal?” answered a voice in the third row.
“The goal,” I repeated. “Without the goal, all Time Management is meaningless.”
Great article. I really think that setting goals is the key to living an effective (rather than efficient) life. By projecting yourself 6 or 12 months into the future and determining what is important to you, you can develop a plan of your work, and then work your plan. I find this helps me to avoid the tyranny of the urgent and allows me to focus on the important things.
http://www.effective-time-management-strategies.com/goal-setting-plan.html Kell