If you work from home, you know the kind of day I mean. You made the calls. You revised those drafts. You sent out the emails. Where is everybody!? As much as you used to relish a slow day when you were corporate, it's a little different when you're playing boss to yourself. Your mind gets to wandering. Should I head out to the park? Should I hit the mall? Should I... file for unemployment?
Yet, where do most people spend the majority of their time and energy? You guessed it. Typically, people spend eighty-percent of their time on their problems; those same problems that are caused by only twenty-percent of their people. At the same time, they generally ignore the twenty-percent of their people who are actually accomplishing eighty-percent of their success.
In personal development and self improvement, there are two different schools of thought. The first suggests that we become completely aware of our deficiencies and problems, and work towards improving them and making them strengths.
Time management is the key to improving productivity. If you become good at it, not only will you be able to do more but what you do accomplish will be higher quality and you will be working on things that really productivity matter to you.
Email is still very new for some of us, and we're still figuring out the rules as we go along. One suggestion that will help your organization is to create a list of email protocols. It can include areas like when not to send an email, how to address it, no use of capital letters since it comes across as shouting (don't assume anything when it comes to what people actually know about email protocol.
With setting of goals and working out an action plan, you will begin to see a different person in yourself. Gone is the pessimist, you will now start recognizing new strengths and confidence you never thought you had. Winning becomes your only motto.
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