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It’s time to unpack my time management leverage system. But first, if you haven’t read my first articles in this series, you can find them here: Part One and Part Two. In those previous posts, I give more background information about the key differences between managing time and leveraging time. In this post, I talk more about the nuts-and-bolts of my actual day-to-day system. Let’s pop the hood and take a look…
Welcome to my article series on time management! If you’re just joining us here, be sure to start from the beginning and read part one here: My Time Management System Part One. In that first post, I blabbed on and on about why most time management systems are pretty useless. I also pointed out the difference between Managing Time and Leveraging Time, showing you why “the time leveraged” is the superhero and “the time manager” is the evil villain in of our world…
Time management systems never quite cut it for me. Over the years, I’ve tried out far too many methods to count and have rarely had any lasting success. But this last month, I’ve been working with a new system that has transformed the way I structure my working days, led to greater productivity, and increased my overall sense of “making progress” on my most important projects. I like to call it my “Tomato Sauce Time Management System” and you’re about to find out why…
For the past year or so I’ve been using two applications on my MacBook Pro that I absolutely love. Even if you’re not a Mac user, I still want to encourage you to keep reading because PC versions are available for at least one of the apps and the concepts are incredibly important for your business and for your life. Seriously… the vast majority of my ultra-productive work comes from using these simple apps that have allowed me to free up more of my time, focus on high-results projects, and get away from my greatest distractions…
In a previous article, I wrote about how a simple project matrix spreadsheet tool can simplify decision-making for choosing the highest yield projects. This is such a great system for entrepreneurs at all stages because it allows you to take a quick 30,000 foot look at your current situation. Often, we entrepreneurs can become so overwhelmed by our own ideas that we end up never doing anything and caught in an endless “project planning” loop…
