Time Management Tools - Protecting Personal Time - Managing Distractions and Interruptions

Protection of your personal time is a good mechanism for productivity. If your income depends on you being able to focus on specific tasks and to produce then you need to plan systems to protect you, your mental energy and your time so you can bill more hours in less time.

If you are beginning to feel like everything is out of control and taking over your life it is time to begin isolating yourself to focus on money making opportunities.

It's true. Really cool companies have invented, developed and sold us wonderful time management tools and time-saving devices to free up more of our time to fill with more things to do! Talk about a cat chasing its tail. Round and round we go, like hands on a clock whirling out of control. We're spinning so fast on our time merry-go-round that at any minute you'll see us flying off into the dark abyss of overload.

Working in a busy environment puts extra pressure on you and everyone within the structure to work, work, work. Emails are coming in, the phones are ringing off the hook, people are knocking on your door, everyone wants something from you.

When you've arrived at this destination of overload you need to put your hands up and declare ³Enough" and begin to fight back a bit to claim the quiet space and time you need to be able to produce and focus on the important activities which are connect to being able to bill for your time.

Twenty years ago it was unheard of to have access to the president, founder or CEO of a huge corporation. They were safely buffered behind multiple plate glass doors and you needed to obtain clearance by four secretarys to be able walk across their noise reducing soft plush carpeting.

Today those same executives have open-door policies, their email addresses are published everywhere and they are easily accessed at any hour day or night by calling their cell phones.

Distractions and interruptions rule their days and they aren't able to focus on the important leadership thinking required to build and maintain the company.

Because these executives and individual practioners have made themselves so available they have become sitting ducks for every urgent need of people in their worlds. Some develop a posture of ³Access Denied" and they remove themselves to an environment where they can stop working in their business and start working on their business.

You need to create an environment where you can count on uninterrupted time to work on the high-level thinking, planning to accomplish those things which are ultimately connected to generating income, and which will keep your company viable with healthy cash flow.

Keeping yourself safe from others' urgency addictions and others' time and project expectations while still maintaining an atmosphere of cooperation is a fine line to walk and it's an art form to implement, but you can do it..

Rather than taking abrupt actions, begin to slowly take back your days and your time. Do it gently a step at a time so you are assured of maintaining a spirit of cooperation with your staff and your clients.

How to use Time Management Tools to Take Back Your Time and Your Life
First of all, we need other people in our daily lives. They are essential to our long-term viability and success. But you don't need to devote the most productive hours of your day to being available.

Schedule your interruptions. Decide on a time when you will read and respond to emails and make an appointment with yourself to do this correspondence.

The same thing holds true with your phone. Turn it off and get it out of site when you need to work on the tasks and projects which are connected to making you money. Schedule the time when you will check your voice mail and return phone calls. When that time is up, move on to the next activity you've scheduled into your day and you'll find this is a great system for protection of personal time too.

Make More Money in Less Time
 Managing Distractions
Stop being the time victim of everyone else's urgency addicitons.

If your income depends on your direct output you need to develop time systems which insist on protection of personal time so you can work.

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