Ray's 17 Rules for Effective Self/Time Management

Time management books and articles abound. What is tail about ass about in the modern age of rush and overburdened schedules is that we talk about managing time not self. Here are 17 keys to increase your daily performance while maintaining a healthy self.

1. Understand what your limits are. What agendas and schedules have you living out on the edge?
2. Know the amount of sleep you need and make sure you get it
3. Get to know yourself. What are the ingredients that make up living at full capacity and energy?
4. Maintain both intellectual and physical fitness
5. Clarify the outcomes you want
6. What are the few things that contribute to these outcomes?
7. Incorporate into your schedule ONLY that which contributes to these
8. Plan next week this week; tomorrow, today
9. Reposition success based on the space in your day, the ease at which you pace yourself (this is very much tail about in current business life)
10. Always ask, ‘who else can do this’? Delegate and then follow up
11. Learn to say no to others agendas, yes to yourself
12. Do things quickly and intensely
13. Schedule the hardest things that match your highest energy
14. Procrastinate on the non critical, act now on the vital
15. Ease the pedal back to 90% capacity. Studies have shown athletes break records by adhering to this
16. Reward yourself
17. And finally - cut out the crap. You are much too valuable to fill your life with stuff that doesn’t count. One life one chance