Tips to Structure Your Day | Brian Tracy

here's some ideas on how to structure your day for maximum productivity performance and output Benny from Facebook recently asked me how do you structure your day so here are some tips to help you structure your day to be more productive and successful number one every minute spent in planning saves 10 minutes in execution or getting the job done so the most important thing you can do is plan your day preferably the night before sit down with a piece of paper and write down everything that you have to do the coming day it should be the last thing you do at the end of the day now if for any reason you don't do this then the first thing you do in the morning before you check your email your phone calls newspapers first thing you do in the morning is make a list of everything that you have to do bad day once you have a list you have a track to run on writing down a list clarifies your thinking writing down a list forces you to think at a higher level if you are working from a list you increase your productivity and output by 25% the first day all successful people work from lists and all successful people with regard to their projects were from check lists a checklist is a list of everything organized in sequence and you go down the checklist now the second way that you can organize your day is to set priorities on your list before you begin don't just rush into it look over the list and apply the 80/20 rule if you have 10 items to do on your list two will be more valuable than the other eight put together sometimes it's the 90/10 rule if you have 10 items on your list one will be important more important that all the others put together go down on your list and ask yourself this question if I could only do one thing on this list before I was called out of town for it for a month what one task what I want to be sure to complete now in my life I'm called out of town for a week two weeks three weeks sometimes a month all the time last fall I was out of town and traveling in 15 countries over 36 days so I have to look at my work list before I go and I have to get my most important tasks done so one you identify this task that leads to the next way to organize your day is begin immediately on your most important task and then stay with it until it's complete all of success in life comes from project completion it comes from taking jobs and a project is called a multi task job it means there's several little jobs within the larger job and what you do is you organize your projects by sequence the checklist and then you start on your most important project and then you stay with that project until it's complete this process is called single handling it's the most powerful success strategy that you can use in managing your time you can actually increase your productivity by 50% by simply starting and completing your most important tasks first thing every day so if you can do those three things start with a list organize the list by priority and then start on and complete your most important tasks you can double and triple your productivity sometimes almost overnight thanks for listening this is brian tracy on success talk did you like this episode make sure to subscribe for the next one and tell a friend about it for exclusive content on sales training leadership business and personal success visit me at Brian Tracy comm and while you're there sign up for my newsletter until next time do the things today that will lead to the life that you desire tomorrow

Channel: Brian Tracy

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Length: 3min 44sec (224 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 18 2014