{"id":614,"date":"2014-06-11T09:29:28","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T14:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sullivision.com\/?p=614"},"modified":"2014-07-31T03:55:47","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T08:55:47","slug":"the-secret-to-time-management-in-a-247-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sullivision.com\/the-secret-to-time-management-in-a-247-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The Secret to \u201cTime Management\u201d in a 24\/7 World."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sullivision.com\/the-secret-to-time-management-in-a-247-world\/time-is-money\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-675\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-675\" alt=\"time is money\" src=\"http:\/\/sullivision.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/time-is-money-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Despite the 10,000 books and videos to the contrary, the fact is, you can\u2019t \u201cmanage\u201d <i>time<\/i>, you can only manage <i>activities or tasks. <\/i><\/p>\n<p>Most performance problems in management teams are rooted in poor planning and lack of prioritizing, not \u201cleadership.\u201d They get distracted and confuse \u201cfire-fighting\u201d with being effective, when in fact, just the opposite is true. Managers who complain loudest about time scarcity often have the most disorganized calendars and an inability to distinguish between what\u2019s important and what\u2019s urgent.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a new strategy for you and your team to apply: <i>assign every task to a specific day instead of merely adding it to a \u201clist.\u201d<\/i><b> <\/b>All of your meetings are calendar-specific, so why shouldn\u2019t your activities be as well? When faced with large projects, high-performing managers have learned to break each project down into the sequential subtasks necessary to complete the project. Now assign those subtasks to a specific day. How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.<\/p>\n<p>Forget the old belief that you should first make a list of every daily task and then assign an A, B, or C priority to each one, with subsets of 1 through 5 prioritization. This may have worked in the 1990s but is ludicrous in today\u2019s faster-harder-smarter-more world. How much time do you spend everyday re-writing and re-assigning these \u201cA-B-C\u201d lists? High-performing Managers are most efficient when they plan 70% of each day and week in detail and leave the remaining 30% for \u201cWTH?\u201d time. This allows for the unexpected \u201cWhat the heck?\u201d fires that can, and will, pop up. Take control of what takes your time by asking yourself this simple question three times daily: <i>\u201cGiven all that I have to accomplish, is this the best possible use of my time right now?\u201d<\/i><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Bottom line? It\u2019s all about prioritization. You don\u2019t need more \u201cTime,\u201d you just need to <b>decide<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Get our FREE phone app of leadership and business quotes called QuoteZilla\u00a0 at Google Play or iTunes. Visit us at \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sullivision.com\/\">www.sullivision.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the 10,000 books and videos to the contrary, the fact is, you can\u2019t \u201cmanage\u201d time, you can only manage activities or tasks. Most performance problems in management teams are rooted in poor planning and lack of prioritizing, not \u201cleadership.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[43,40,65],"class_list":["post-614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fundamentals","tag-fundamentals-2","tag-leadership","tag-time-management"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sullivision.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sullivision.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sullivision.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sullivision.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sullivision.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sullivision.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sullivision.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sullivision.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sullivision.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sullivision.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}