APRIL 2014
In this issue: 1 Priorities 3 Marciano & Ogden 4 Top Ten 5 1st Responder App 5 Chart Toppers 6 Make It Happen 2014 7 Convention Schedule 8 ServproNet® 9 Words of Wisdom
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Make It Happen! “You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage to say no to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger ‘yes’ burning inside.” ~ Stephen R. Covey
PRIORITIES
Some activities have more positive impact than others when working toward your goal. Replace bad habits with successful habits: carry a journal with you for a few days and write out your schedule, but only after you complete a task, record how you actually spent your time, in fifteen-minute blocks. After you have tracked yourself for a few days or a week, you can see how your time was really spent. What was productive, and what was a distraction? Identify the points in your schedule when you were steadily productive; when you had a positive impact in getting important tasks accomplished. These are your positive impact activities. Make this promise to yourself and keep it. Your success depends upon this commitment to yourself, your business, and your family. Determine what key factors allowed you to be productive. Was it the time of day? Was it your location? Had you just returned from the gym, or was it when you were under a deadline? What was the combination of factors that allowed you to be at your best? Reinforce these positive activities through repetition - the more positive activities, the greater the total impact. Make a list and stay focused: At the end of each day, make a list of what is active, what is closed, and what will open tomorrow. Closing out open projects will reflect that day’s progress, and reinforce a sense of accomplishment. Listing active projects will give you time to think about the specific tasks associated with each active project and consider them in the context of tomorrow’s Priority List. Writing out tomorrow’s new projects or potential issues will make real-time project adjustments more fluid and less disruptive. Taking time to think on paper is the first critical step in effective priority list management. Once everything is in front of you, flat and level, it is easier to shift the pieces into an order that will allow you to make the most of your day.