You could storyboard your day easily by having 3x5 cards tacked on a corkboard, having a legal pad divided into 15 minute increment boxes on the left side with space for notes on the right side, or using a piece of paper typed up on the computer.
The most important elements of a day script are:
- Having exact start and end times for every activity, task, appointment, meeting or phone call
- Defining the exact objectives for each activity involving another person
The script for the day is a minute-by-minute prediction of the way the day will play out.
Most people’s work life varies – so some days there is not much of a script and the whole day might be devoted to one thing. Other days there may be 30 deadlines.
These days most people are overcomplicating their businesses, their marketing and their lives.
They are letting themselves be spread too thin over way too many things to try to do – thus diluting focus, energy and resources.
To be clear, we do favor complex marketing processes along with comprehensive and thorough monetization of leads and prospects. But that mostly involves systems which are engineered once and then operated.
The truth is most businesses or careers have five or
fewer truly critical and essential success factors
to focus on and organize everything around.
The list of things which you decide to ignore in order to devote enough energy to a shortlist is as important as the shortlist itself.
One secret of ensuring productivity is to make all your work dollar-constrained.
A given activity can only be allocated the amount of time its monetary or compensation value permits – if activities are permitted to eat more time than they pay for, you wind up missing income targets.
This helps rule out many things altogether; things many people have come to believe they must do without ever holding those things financially accountable.
One of the best things about tight scripting of the day is that nothing can consume more time than allocated to it because something else is starting one minute after the previous thing ends.
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This is an excerpt from my book, “9 Rules For Business Prosperity in the New Economy”. The book may be purchased in both printed and Kindle editions at: http://arizonamarketingassociation.org/9-rules-business-prosperity/