Thread: The Most Effective Time Management Technique Ever

I love reading time management and productivity books. There’s something about getting more done in less time that gets me excited. Every time I find a new tool or technique that can help me get things done faster, my day gets so much better!

Last week, during a very fruitful meditation session, I came up with an idea to boost my productivity and I decided to test it for a whole week before getting too excited about it. Well, I did test it and it worked GREAT! OK, enough suspense. Here it goes:

“Do what you feel like doing.”

“What? Are you serious? What are you talking about?” I’m talking about listening to yourself. Sometimes you’re in the mood to talk to people. Great! Pick up the phone and call a few prospects. Meet a potential partner for lunch. If you feel like writing, blog. If you’re tired, rest. When you have energy again and feel like putting together that spreadsheet you’ve been thinking about, do that.

Why This Works

Two reasons:

If you’re not excited about something, chances are you won’t do a good job at it. Think about it. What are your chances of closing a sale if you’re thinking, “damn, I have to call this guy again. I don’t feel like talking to him at all!”?
When you do what you feel like, you’re happier. When you’re happier, you do things much better. Not to mention that being happier is by itself an awesome thing you can do for yourself.

Aren’t I Being a Little Naïve?

I don’t think so. I’m not saying that you should never do something you don’t feel like doing. Sometimes we have to. But I’ve found that this last week I’ve been more productive than I’ve ever been before. I wrote down a list of all my weekly priorities and worked on them in the order I felt like.

Give it a shot and let me know how this works out for you.

Well unfortunately I hate building backlinks, calling affprograms, metting up with my accountant / lawyer and everything else in my job haha

I actually do the same thing. I have a planner with me. Then' I'll take down everything I have to do in a day, in a week and in a month. So, in that case, it would remind me of all the things I needed to do that day, the people I need to meet and stuffs I have to finish.

It sounds simple, you I think that you bring up a great point.

I There is a relatively new buzz phrase in the corporate world that says, "A happy employee is a productive employee." I've been saying that for years. I used to practice that with my employees when I had a corporate job, and I saw a lot of success.

So, why wouldn't that work for your own business. You are your own employee, so you have to keep you happy. It makes great sense. I will keep that in mind. Thanks for some great food for thought.

I definitely agree with that. "A happy employee is a productive employee." You really know when a person loves what he's doing. Because he's happy and it shows.

I myself do the same thing, i just do work if i feel i wanna do, if not i just get sleep or do other work.. if you don't have some kind of willingness to do a work, you just cant focus

Originally Posted by zekecamusio

I love reading time management and productivity books. There’s something about getting more done in less time that gets me excited. Every time I find a new tool or technique that can help me get things done faster, my day gets so much better!

Last week, during a very fruitful meditation session, I came up with an idea to boost my productivity and I decided to test it for a whole week before getting too excited about it. Well, I did test it and it worked GREAT! OK, enough suspense. Here it goes:

“Do what you feel like doing.”

“What? Are you serious? What are you talking about?” I’m talking about listening to yourself. Sometimes you’re in the mood to talk to people. Great! Pick up the phone and call a few prospects. Meet a potential partner for lunch. If you feel like writing, blog. If you’re tired, rest. When you have energy again and feel like putting together that spreadsheet you’ve been thinking about, do that.

Why This Works

Two reasons:

If you’re not excited about something, chances are you won’t do a good job at it. Think about it. What are your chances of closing a sale if you’re thinking, “damn, I have to call this guy again. I don’t feel like talking to him at all!”?
When you do what you feel like, you’re happier. When you’re happier, you do things much better. Not to mention that being happier is by itself an awesome thing you can do for yourself.

Aren’t I Being a Little Naïve?

I don’t think so. I’m not saying that you should never do something you don’t feel like doing. Sometimes we have to. But I’ve found that this last week I’ve been more productive than I’ve ever been before. I wrote down a list of all my weekly priorities and worked on them in the order I felt like.

Give it a shot and let me know how this works out for you.

great post you have shared i think these techniques are most important and valuable for us and the key points are there in your post i really learn many things from your post.

Well, it looks to be too much simple but I don't think that it works all the time as during job, one has to do one's tasks and other stuff even if one may don't want to do that work at that time. So, what one has to do in such a situation??

Well, sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. Sometimes time constraints prohibit you from choosing what to do. Sometimes you have to finish a specific duty before a deadline, so you just have to grit your teeth and do it.

However, when you own your own business, you often have 10 things you have to do all at the same time. I know I have a list of about 10 things that I need to do as soon as I can get to them. If you don't feel like doing one, do the other. You can also go take a break. and come back to do your tasks later. Writers do that often when they get "writers block."

It is just a matter of managing your time right, and knowing when to power through and you can relax.

Originally Posted by koernelcool

Well unfortunately I hate building backlinks, calling affprograms, metting up with my accountant / lawyer and everything else in my job haha

me too don't like to make backlinks manually, thats why u need to hire some professional to do that for you. OR use some software like SE nuke x carefully.

Originally Posted by zekecamusio

I don’t think so. I’m not saying that you should never do something you don’t feel like doing. Sometimes we have to. But I’ve found that this last week I’ve been more productive than I’ve ever been before. I wrote down a list of all my weekly priorities and worked on them in the order I felt like.

Give it a shot and let me know how this works out for you.

I find it better to get the things that you DON'T want to do DONE FIRST.
That gets them out of the way so you can enjoy doing what you like doing more.

If I keep putting off the hard tasks they are always there nagging away at the back of my mind, therefore affecting my productivity.

Originally Posted by rain22

me too don't like to make backlinks manually, thats why u need to hire some professional to do that for you. OR use some software like SE nuke x carefully.

yeah these are great tools i use seo tools and they save me hours of time

Originally Posted by zekecamusio

I love reading time management and productivity books. There’s something about getting more done in less time that gets me excited. Every time I find a new tool or technique that can help me get things done faster, my day gets so much better!

Last week, during a very fruitful meditation session, I came up with an idea to boost my productivity and I decided to test it for a whole week before getting too excited about it. Well, I did test it and it worked GREAT! OK, enough suspense. Here it goes:

“Do what you feel like doing.”

“What? Are you serious? What are you talking about?” I’m talking about listening to yourself. Sometimes you’re in the mood to talk to people. Great! Pick up the phone and call a few prospects. Meet a potential partner for lunch. If you feel like writing, blog. If you’re tired, rest. When you have energy again and feel like putting together that spreadsheet you’ve been thinking about, do that.

Why This Works

Two reasons:

If you’re not excited about something, chances are you won’t do a good job at it. Think about it. What are your chances of closing a sale if you’re thinking, “damn, I have to call this guy again. I don’t feel like talking to him at all!”?
When you do what you feel like, you’re happier. When you’re happier, you do things much better. Not to mention that being happier is by itself an awesome thing you can do for yourself.

Aren’t I Being a Little Naïve?

I don’t think so. I’m not saying that you should never do something you don’t feel like doing. Sometimes we have to. But I’ve found that this last week I’ve been more productive than I’ve ever been before. I wrote down a list of all my weekly priorities and worked on them in the order I felt like.

Give it a shot and let me know how this works out for you.

Interesting tips. I'd half to only somewhat agree with this. What if you're a person who doesn't feel like doing anything all the time?

Originally Posted by Hulbert Lee

Interesting tips. I'd half to only somewhat agree with this. What if you're a person who doesn't feel like doing anything all the time?

If someone is that type of person, then that person probably would not be very successful either way. Wouldn't you agree?

The time management technique which works best for me is to allocate time line for each task and I really enjoy working on my tasks not with respect to the completion but with respect to time allocation.

For those of you who are in SEO and I believe most of you are

They should manage their time and are free to follow the below plan. This plan will keep you organized I Guarantee

Monday - submit 10 articles in the top article directories
Tuesday - submit 10 articles to top web 2.0 sites
Wednesday - submit 10 comments to your top niches blogs
Thursday - submit 10 press releases to top PR sites
Friday - join 10 top forums in niche and CONTRIBUTE while leaving a link to your site (wait for a week to have a footer link)
Saturday - Submit 10 videos to Youtube on your keywords (vides can be Powerpoint slides)
Sunday - Book mark and ping all your articles, PR, web 2.0 content, comments, videos
Monday - REPEAT ALL OVER AGAIN...

I hope this can help many of you guys

----> davidpeterson: If only it were that easy