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BizSuccess Breakthroughs for
June 19, 2002
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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..WELCOME to BizSuccess Breakthroughs
..THIS ISSUE'S MESSAGE - "Outwit the Time
Wasters"
..SPOTLIGHTS - Products and Services for you and your
enterprise ..QUOTES - To Get You
Thinking
..THE FUNNIES - On the Lighter Side of Business
..MORE RESOURCES AT BizSuccess.com
..PUBLISHER CONTACT INFO
..YOUR COMMENTS PLEASE?
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WELCOME
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Hello. Gary Lockwood here again with more breakthrough ideas and information on
how to:
Grow your business - Make more money - Have more fun.
First things first. If you are one of the 807 new subscribers who joined us in
the past two weeks… Welcome!
And, "Thank *You*" for referring this newsletter to your friends And
colleagues. I really appreciate you for helping to pass the Word about this
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You might say, "My day is not a waste of time! I'm very organized. I
know exactly where I'm going and what I'm going to do." If you truly
operate that way, then you're in the minority. Most people are frustrated with
days that aren't as productive as originally intended. Put simply, we
would prefer to get more done.
The purpose of today's column is to identify some of the most troublesome
Time-Wasters and some ideas on how to deal with them.
My hope is that you use the ideas and information in these BizSuccess
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THIS ISSUE'S MESSAGE
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Outwit the Time Wasters
You might say, "My day is not a waste of time! I'm very organized. I know
exactly where I'm going and what I'm going to do." If you truly operate
that way, then you're in the minority. Most people become frustrated with days
that aren't as productive as originally intended. Put simply, we would prefer to
get more done.
The purpose of this column is to identify some of the most troublesome
Time-Wasters. They may not match your list exactly, but I trust many items
on the list are also common with you.
Here are a few of the worst time wasters and some ideas on
how to deal with them.
Crisis Management - Ever feel that you're leaving a trail of unfin-
ished projects, unreturned phone calls, unread mail, partially completed
reports? Sometimes crises are imposed by others; boss, clients, etc.. More
often, crises arise from a job we left unfinished to work on another unfinished
task.
Another term for crisis management is "fire fighting." Even more
insidious is the crisis caused by failing to make a decision or take an action
that would have prevented the crisis in the first place! In a court of law, you
might be found guilty of arson, setting fires That must be extinguished later.
Most of this is really caused by losing focus of true priorities. Learn to tell
the difference between "urgent" and "important".
The Telephone - We spend about 2.5 hours each day on the phone, averaging
12-14 calls a day. About 20% of that time on the phone is wasted. The most
common culprits are wandering phone calls, long distance weather reports,
forgetting some of the important issues, or calling every time we think of the
next topic. On average, an unplanned phone call takes 5 minutes longer than one
that has been planned.
Planning a phone call can be as easy as a 30 second outline of what you want to
say or ask. Without those few seconds of plan- ning, you're costing your company
an hour a day. As for incoming calls, 68% of phone interruptions are less
important than what they interrupted. We have been trained since childhood to
answer the phone when it rings. Instead, block some quiet time to concentrate.
Lack of Priorities - We accomplish the most when we know exactly what we
want to accomplish. Unfortunately, too many think goals and objectives are
yearly items and not daily considerations. The result are days spent majoring in
the minors. Plan your day.
Trying To Do Too Much - Many of today's high performers seem to have a common
thread: the "Superman/Superwoman" ideal; i.e., Taking on
everything and trying to get it done by tomorrow. Success or failure seems to be
measured by the state of busyness. We know that we can't do justice to
everything at once and we often don't have perspective of all we have going on.
It's like tossing another ball to the juggler... 33 at once for the average busy
executive.
Focus on what counts.
Ineffective Delegation - Good delegation is a key skill for managers, yet the
average manager spends 45% of their time on tasks that could be done by a
staffer. "I can do it better and faster", you say. Sure you can,
but ultimately, you are judged on what you can cause to happen, not just what
you can do on your own. As a general rule of thumb, in non-critical cases, if
another person can accomplish a task 80% as well as you, delegate.
The Messy Desk - Do you have "desk stress?" Is your desk or credenza
piled with pending and unfinished work that will be done when you "get
around to it?" The average businessperson spends 3 hours each week looking
for things plus 2 hours being distracted by the stuff laying around.
Do you still use the 'archealogical-dig' method of filing? Does your
peripheral vision keep everything in mind, causing constant distractions? Are
you always saying "I know it's here somewhere!"
Put it away, file it, delegate it or trash it. The most effective people work
from a clean desk.
Procrastination - The big "P", the "thief of time", is not
decision making but decision avoidance. "I'll take care of it when I
get a round TUIT". The average employee spends 45 days a year
procrastinating; stalling, holding on to projects, redoing reports, putting it
off till a better time. There's even a Procrastinators club. Their newsletter is
called "last month's newsletter". By reducing procrastination, you can
substantially increase the available time in your day. Do it now.
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QUOTES To Get You Thinking
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"The road to a friend's house is never long."
Danish proverb
"True friends stab you in the front."
Oscar Wilde
"I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was
yesterday."
Abraham Lincoln
"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens
to you."
Aldous Huxley
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THE FUNNIES
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Stop by our website every day to see the Business Cartoon
of the Day by Ted Goff. http://www.bizsuccess.com/cartoon.htm
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Things to
Remember as A Dog
1. The garbage collector is not stealing our stuff.
2. I do not need to suddenly stand straight up when I'm lying
under the coffee table.
3. I will not roll my toys behind the fridge, behind the
sofa or under the bed.
4. I must shake the rainwater out of my fur before entering
the house.
5. I will not eat the cats' food, before they eat it or
after they throw it up.
6. I will stop trying to find the few remaining pieces of
clean carpet in the house when I am about to get sick.
7. I will not throw up in the car.
8. I will not roll on dead seagulls, fish, crabs, etc. just
because I like the way they smell.
9. "Kitty box crunchies," although they are tasty, are not food.
10. I will not eat any more Kleenex or napkins and then re-
deposit them in the backyard after processing.
11. The diaper pail is not a cookie jar.
12. I will not chew my human's toothbrush and not tell them.
13. I will not chew crayons or pens, especially not the red
ones, or my people will think I am hemorrhaging.
14. When in the car, I will not insist on having the window
rolled down when it's raining outside.
15. We do not have a doorbell. I will not bark each time I
hear one on TV.
16. I will not steal my mom's underwear and dance all over the
backyard with it.
17. The sofa is not a face towel. Neither are Mom & dad's laps.
18. My head does not belong in the refrigerator.
19. I will not bite the officer's hand when he reaches in
for mom's driver's license and car registration.
20. I will not play tug-of-war with dad's underwear when he's
on the toilet.
***excerpts from: http://www.joker.org/
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RESOURCES AT BizSuccess.com
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His 4-week "teleclass" makes the information from his seminars
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PUBLISHER INFO
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Gary Lockwood is Your Business Coach.
Helping business owners, entrepreneurs, and professionals
to get all they really want from their enterprise.
(800) 272-1575 (USA) - (909)739-7444 Fax: (909) 494-4314
Email: mailto:Gary@bizsuccess.com
Visit our website at http://www.bizsuccess.com
Grow your business, make more money,
have more fun!
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