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Execute Your Plan:
Time Boxing
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ou’ve tracked your time, and you’ve devel-
oped a detailed plan to spend it more wisely.
The next step is putting your plan into ac-
tion and sticking to it. You’ll do this using a tool called
time boxing.
Execution is by far the hardest part of the time-
management process. When you’re juggling a wide
range of tasks, goals, responsibilities, meetings, and
deadlines, it’s not easy to stick to a plan, no matter
how carefully crafted it is. But if you take a more dis-
ciplined, thoughtful, and organized approach to your
daily schedule, it is possible to stay on ...