July 12th, 2019

​"How are you?" I ask. "Busy!" you reply. "Very Busy!" OK, you're busy. That's easy, anyone can be busy. In fact, I'm busy typing this into my computer. But are you being productive? These are two very different things. "Too many things to do and not enough time to do it in. I need to manage my time better." I hear that all the time in my coaching practice. Well, we all have the same 24 hours in a day and quite frankly, time, cannot be managed, so give up trying! What can be manged, however, is behaviours. If you adopt more productive behaviours, you'll find you have more time. The best place to start is to simplify. Make a list of the things you commonly do and then decide which ones you can Delegate, Dump or Do. Stop doing the meaningless tasks and dump them. Then delegate or automate the tasks that someone else could do. Now you're left with the tasks only you can do. Did you find more time? No, but you changed your behaviour so now you have more time to do productive things. Do this one thing in your personal and professional life and see how things change. Made the list yet?