Eliminate
Right now, your day is filled with duplicated effort and unnecessary distractions. Eliminate those, and you’ll automatically save yourself a couple of hours each day. Two things you can do right now is to cut back on checking your email and voicemail to twice per day…at 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. Notify your clients that, in order to improve your productivity, you are trying to cut back on the amount of time you spend trapped in your in-box. Moving forward, you will be checking email and voice mail twice a day. But if it is an emergency and needs immediate attention, your cell phone is on at all times.
Answer emails and phone calls at 11 and 4. And make sure the cell phone calls you get are actual emergencies. It may take a bit of educating for your clients to get the picture, but you’ll soon see major results.
Another thing I did as I got started was to schedule all of my actual writing for just two days each week (Tuesday and Thursday). The other days I could research, do some concepting, perform administrative functions, etc. But I would not write except on Tuesday and Thursday. In addition to making my writing time more productive, it made me focus more attention on how I was scheduling my work. There were no more next-day turnarounds (self-induced stress).
Look hard at your day and see where you can cut out unproductive habits. And fill that time with wither productive habits, or enjoyable leisure activities. Left as a vacuum, it will simply be replaced with more time wasters.
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