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18 Useful Tips For Managing Your Time and Your Life
by Dr. Criswell Freeman

  1. Understand that time is life, and act accordingly.
  2. Have clearly written long-term goals and objectives. They will guide you.
  3. Start each day with a prioritized to-do list. Attack "A" priorities first.
  4. Organize your workspace and your professional toolkit (including your computer)
  5. Handle each piece of paper no more than three times: when you receive it, when you attend to it, and, at most, one more time while you are thinking about what to do with it. After three touches, file it, either in a filing cabinet or a waste receptacle. 
  6. Everybody wants your time. Use the word "no" liberally. When in doubt, be slow to commit.
  7. With big tasks, get started, even if it’s a small beginning. Well begun is half done.
  8. Obey the 80/20 rule. Remember that 80% of your results will come from 20% of your activities. Plan accordingly.
  9. Know your personal "prime time." Do "A" activities during prime time.
  10. When two tasks are equally important, do the unpleasant task first. It’s the logical and healthy way to live.
  11. When you become involved in an activity, finish it. Nothing is more distracting that a desk full of half-completed tasks.
  12. When interruptions occur, as they inevitably will, don't become become frustrated or angry. Simply attend to them as quickly as possible and return to the A-priority task at hand.
  13. Be perfectly willing to leave many B and C-priority tasks undone forever. You simply can't do everything, and that's okay. 
  14. Use the services of other people to do the B and C priority activities, and be perfectly willing to pay them to do so. Spend your time on higher paying A priorities.
  15. Organize your filing system so that you can retrieve yesterday's work. Whatever it is, you've probably done it before.
  16. Eliminate repetitive tasks. We live in a computer-assisted world where we seldom need to do the same things over and over again; that's why Silicon Valley gave us computers. Buy the software, learn how to use it, and let you desktop do the boring, repetitive work; that leaves you with more time to revolutionize your life and to change your world! 
  17. Do you best, and be satisfied. 
  18. Buy a copy of the book How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life by Alan Lakin. It’s full of useful ideas, including many of the ideas on this list.
 

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