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Manage your day

Manage your day

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I recently realised that I wasn't using my time, energy and creative in the right way - I simply did too much with too little effect. Based on my own experience and a couple of books, I did a talk on how to improve efficiency and get more (of the right things) out of your day.

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Manage your day

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Inspired by

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Problem

We don’t have enough time

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Why…

We let other people dictate our agenda We do too much with too little effect

We haven’t decided what is important

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So what do we do?

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Set a focus and follow it strictly.

- Learn to say no

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Set a focus and follow it strictly.

- Handy tips

• First thing your should do every morning is to figure out what is most important that you get done today. Stick to this plan, and prioritise everything accordingly.

• Don’t do whatever is thrown at your, but evaluate it according to your schedule.

• Insist on an agenda for meetings and ask about urgency • Be honest about what you can get done in a day, and say no to the

other thing. • Make your own daily backlog

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Work in the morning - routine in the afternoon

- Defend your creative time

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Work in the morning - routine in the afternoon

- Handy tips

• We are most creative and inspired in the morning - don’t spend this time doing routine task like answering emails, doing time registration and doing scheduling-meetings. This time is for problem solving

• Book yourself out in your calendar in the morning to avoid meeting invitations

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Work in sprints - with a timer

- Kill the background noise

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Work in sprints - with a timer

- Handy tips

• Our entire office, our computer and our phone is set up to distract us. Turn it off and work focused for an hour at a time.

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Get away from your work

- Make time to play

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Work in sprints - with a timer

- Handy tips

• We cannot work focused and creatively for long periods at a time. So get away from your desk