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TIME MANAGEMENT
BY: GARY KELLER, AUTHOR,
FOUNDER, KELLER WILLIAMS REALTY
BY: JAY PAPASON, CO-AUTHOR,
MILLIONAIRE REAL ESTATE
3 Ways To Find More
Time In Your Day
T
ime is our most precious
resource and we all need to
be intentional about how we
spend it. It’s too easy with
all the devices, social media,
and constant streams of information to
fall victim to time-wasting traps that
prevent us from accomplishing our most
important work.
If you’re not a natural time management
pro, don’t worry. Time management is
a learned skill, not a born talent. Here
are three easy ways you can identify
or manage the worst time-wasters in
your life, and win back precious time
throughout your day.
1. PLAN AND PRIORITIZE
When you know you’ve got a busy day (or
week) ahead of you, it’s important to have
a clear plan for what you need to achieve.
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Not only does a plan keep you focused and
on track, but getting it all down paper can
remove the sense of being overwhelmed or
not knowing where to start. This is why
we recommend time-blocking, and using
your 66-Day Calendar to map the most
important things to focus on (the1thing.
com/resources/66-day-calendar/).
On Friday afternoons or Sundays, sit
down and think about your big goals for
this year. What do you want to achieve,
both personally and professionally? With
those longer-term goals in mind, you
can work backwards to figure out what
you need to do this month to get there,
and then what you need to do in the next
week. Once you’ve identified the three ‘Big
Rocks’ for the week ahead, you can plan
out your schedule (and you can use this
system to develop a routine that will work
for your specific situation).
2. WORKING? WORK. RESTING? REST
It happens to the best of us: we’re in the
middle of a scheduled work block, and
then, barely even registering that we’re
doing it, we click open a new tab to check
in on Facebook or email. We open the
news, Twitter, or forums that we like,
compulsively refreshing them — and
losing our focus on the work we were
doing.
Once you’ve identified the traps you
usually fall into, you can take preventative
measures to keep yourself out of them.
Put your phone away during work hours
so you’re not tempted to check it and
utilize programs like Cold Turkey that
will block distracting websites from your
computer for as long as you need to get
work done. Build your Bunker, collecting
everything you will need (snacks, water,