Success Habits For Dummies

Chapter 19

Creating the Success Habit of Time-Blocking

IN THIS CHAPTER

Using the 80/20 rule to prioritize your goals

Setting daily priorities

Using time-blocking to get things done

What you do with your time is more important than how much time you have. Just as recognizing and understanding your life goals helps you achieve successful time management skills, the effective use of your time goes a long, long way to shortening the journey to those goals. By investing your time with care and consideration, your journey toward your dreams is certain to be smoother. In fact, an old time-management adage says that for every minute you invest in planning, you save 10 minutes in execution. Spend an hour planning a trip, for example, and you’ll free up 10 hours to achieve better business results, reduce stress, and add quality time at home.

The best way to achieve your goals is to prioritize them and develop an ordered plan to reach them. A universally recognized method for maximizing productivity, called the 80/20 rule, has proven successful time and again, for more than 100 years. In this chapter, I explain the general concept and show you how to apply it — at work, at home, in your relationships, ...