Time Management Tools Twenty Ten

I wrapped up Friday with a trip to Staples to pickup my time management tools for 2010 and they included;

1 – Quartet brand 1 Year Wall Planner

2 – packages Staples brand ¾” red, blue, green and yellow removable print and write colour coding labels

1 – Blueline brand C5940T Weekly (Week At A Glance ) time management planner

1 – Blueline brand A9C.81 NotePro journal

Before I get into talking about time management tools for 2010 I recommend that you read;

• Empty Your Head

• A Strong Start For 2009

Time Management Tools Twenty Ten

Plan your holiday time or FREE DAYS as Dan Sullivan would say first and put green dots on the days that you choose. You know that they say, the best time to plan your next holiday is right after you return from your last holiday and given we are heading into the holiday season, now is the time to plan your holidays for 2010 if you haven’t already done so.

Next plan your planning time, the time to work on your business or BUFFER DAYS as Dan Sullivan would say and put blue dots on these days. For me, Monday’s are my BUFFER DAYS, the first day of the week so that I get the week off to a strong start.

Next plan your client time, the time to meet with your clients or FOCUS DAYS as Dan Sullivan would say and put red dots on these days. For me, I work with clients, Tuesday – Friday the first and third weeks of the month.

This leaves the second and forth weeks of the month which can be used for product development or speaking or CREATIVE DAYS and put yellow dots on these days.

Here is an example of the excel spreadsheet that we created after using the 1 Year Wall Planner for the summer of 2007 / 2008.This strategy is essential for you to be in charge of your own destiny or your business will be running you.

There was a time when I was an unknown in financial planning and investment planning and I would do anything to get a financial planning speaking or investment planning speaking opportunity. This past month of 7 speaking opportunities in 2 separate trips to Ontario taking 14 plane flights with over 18,000km was a demonstration of our business running us.