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Develop a Plan

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to save a few hours each week to deal with

un anticipated activities, such as lunch with

a former colleague who’s in town.

• Establish interim goals. Once you have reallo-

cated your time, it’s useful to set goals—interim

milestones—in each of your job categories.

What do you need to accomplish in a month,

quarter, or year? Make sure that these goals

match up with any that your manager has made

for you, as you did when considering your over-

all goals at the beginning of this process.

Save your most ambitious goals for your

high-priority categories since you’ll want to de-

vote the bulk of your time, focus, and energy to

them. It’s still useful to set goals for your other

categories as well, however. They’ll keep you

focused and ...