Channel Eye has joined forces with Royston Guest, leading Business Growth Coach and CEO/Founder of Pathways Global, in our column, ‘Ask the Business Coach’.
Despite your best intentions, are you focusing your time & energy on things you can but shouldn’t be doing? Without even realising it, you can be sucked into the small, menial tasks that will not move the business dials anytime soon. Over the short term, they waste your time, but over the longer term, they can harm business profits.
Three key takeaways
- Not time management but self-management.
- Not a ‘to do’ list but a ‘success’ list.
- If not written down, then you don’t own it.
Episode timestamps
- [0.22] Let’s shift our perspective from ‘time management’ to ‘self-management’. Remember, you can’t manage time – the clock will continually tick, and you cannot influence it, change it or slow it down. What you can manage is yourself and your tasks.
- [1.00] Don’t think ‘to-do’ list; think ‘success’ list. A to-do list implies a list of tasks that must be completed irrespective of their urgency, importance or complexity. Thinking of it as a success list will automatically help you question what needs to be on your list and further help you prioritise those items.
- [2.48] I live by the principle that if it’s not in black and white (electronic or written), you don’t own it. So, there is a place for lists to help improve productivity; I have just shifted my perspective on their purpose and how I use them.
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