Not everyone with strong talents can keep everything on track all the time. Here are three steps to help reap the benefits of an executive assistant without having to make room in the budget.
Today’s schedule, your children’s clothing sizes, important phone numbers, your spouse’s social security number, a monthly or annual calendar, or whatever you need - it’s completely customizable, can slip inside your wallet, and costs you no more than the ink on the paper.
Sounds enticing, doesn’t it? This downloadable tool gives you a big-picture view of your year. Excellent for answering questions like “How many weekends in a row will we be traveling?” or “Are there any other big projects happening in October?”
I haven’t tried this yet, but it sounds intriguing. Sometimes we just don’t know how long something will take, or it will be so time-consuming to fine-tune our planning that it’s scarcely worth it. But that doesn’t mean we want our productivity efforts to get all mushy around the edges. The Emergent Task Timer (from David Seah like the Compact Calendar above) helps you stay on track and collects information on where you needed to spend your time. Next time, you’ll know more about what’s involved. And, as patterns emerge, you’ll learn about your strengths and weaknesses around staying on task. (If 12:45 to 1:15 pm is always spent at the ice cream kiosk, that should tell you something.)
