Time Management in a Nutshell

Rules of Time Management from all the books – to save time in reading them:

1. Don’t rush
2. If in doubt – ask
3. Write it down
4. Organize your work area
5. Plan your day – the day before
6. Schedule tasks in a planner
7. Keep files trim – cull them
8. Give specific deadlines
9. Don’t be a perfectionist
10. Have a daily focus period
11. Respect other’s time
12. Handle paper once
13. Use a follow up file
14. Don’t procrastinate
15. Scrap magazines (tear out useful bits)
16. Schedule personal and family time
17. Say no more often
18. Record your telephone calls (Log)
19. Delegate more
20. Subscribe to condensed information
21. Have one planner only
22. Avoid stress
23. Practice Pareto’s Principle (80% of results are achieved by 20% of what you do)
24. Prioritize
25. Put goals in writing
26. Attend fewer meetings
27. Don’t take the monkey
28. There are 1,440 minutes in a day – use them wisely!

Time Management – in just 4 principles: 

• Delegate
• Defer it
• Do it
• Dump it!

J D (Jim) Stowe DVM