Day Four - When You're Away

Learning to prioritize when you're away is a challenge. When you go on a vacation you take time out to plan that trip. Do the same with the work you leave behind? Don't panic but prioritize. Make lists or piles and label according to importance.

It can be as easy as printing out your To-Do and breaking it up into smaller segments. Create lists and put the in order of importance, for instance,  Urgent, today, tomorrow, wait to next week and so on. Do only what has to be completed while you're away. The work will still be there when you return. Remember to avoid panicking and stressing yourself out.

You can also use Outlook to prioritize your tasks. A function in their tasks allows for you to color coordinate your schedule, and it helps with grouping your workload. You can update tasks for completion or percent of work finished. The tutorial below will help you get started with Outlook.

Stay on track with Outlook tasks

Day Three: Let's Combine Our Activities

Group all like items together. Look over the To-Do list and see what things you can combine to save time. This is essentially finding meeting your obligations by combining tasks. The combination of tasks in a particular period is considered time management. This is the beginning of reducing your workload and managing your time more wisely. What are some tasks you can combine?

You should now have a to-do list you update daily. Go over it and see where you can combine activities. Whether it's spending time with the family or writing out your blog posts for next week. For example, while on the phone look through your email or finish reading the mail. 

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Do you have good time management skills?

How often do you find yourself running out of time? Weekly, daily, hourly? For many, it seems that there's just never enough time in the day to get everything done.

Managing your time will help you to gain control. This workshop is designed to help you work more effectively. Do you find yourself working on this, that and the other and not getting anything really accomplished? With effective time management, it helps you manage what you will work on, when and where. This gives you a sense of feeling as if you have added some accomplishment to your day.

On October 4, 2010 we'll have an interactive workshop that will help you identify and manage your day more effectively. The results will point you to the specific tools you need to use to gain control of your time, and start working efficiently.

Please join the workshop. Here's the outline of what we'll cover:

Day One - Procrastination
Day Two - Why Wait for Perfection
Day Three - Let' combine our activities
Day Four - When you're away
Day Five - Keeping to your schedule
Day Six - Managing your time effectively
Day Seven - It's Okay to Say No
Day Eight - Making Use of Technology
Day Nine - Managing your Social Networking Time
Day Ten - Setting your Prime Time

We'll use Blog Frog to host the workshop. Click here to join the community.

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