HBR 20-Minute Manager Boxed Set (10 Books) (HBR 20-Minute Manager Series)

Schedule Your Work

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some tasks need to be reprioritized or rescheduled?

If you engage in this review every hour, you will start

to take better control of your time. And you will get

more work done.

Consider rewarding yourself for your efforts, too.

When you cross three tasks off your list, give yourself

a break or launch into an easy task next. The sense of

accomplishment and reward will keep you motivated.

By taking the time to understand your goals and

how you spend your time, and then prioritizing and

assigning times to your work, you can create daily to-

do lists that are realistic and that ensure you’ll get the

right work done at the right time. Next, you need to

improve how you actually go about working by fi nd-

ing your focus and developing ...