Your Last 48 hours?

Definitely.

If we are given 100 hours vs 1 hr, the focus will be different.

I remember a story I heard about it somewhere - a man who is suffering from cancer is advised to work only 4 hours a day. It was hard as he was an workaholic and worked 18 hours a day.

He had no choice. He has cancer. So he has to cut down on all his tasks and reprioritise his work.

Now, he is more focused due to the fact he has less time for work.

He cut down his checking of emails, remove meetings and reduce traveling. He removes tasks which are time consuming.

So the bottomline is we can remanage our tasks and make our time more productive. =)

Cheers,
John

That's definitely a big part of it, but y'know what? I've made so many time management mistakes / planning mistakes / processes and procedure inefficiencies (or lack thereof) over the years that I've created my own systems to be able to achieve more in shorter periods of time.

Here's one time management example: I no longer log into my Instant Messengers during the day while I'm working. The only time I log on now is when I've got free time or talking / texting with a client or prospect. The one thing boosted my productivity like nobody's business.

Mike Litman impressed upon me being able to plan my week ahead of time and focusing on doing the MOST important things first (he stressed that these are usually the things that people hate / dislike doing which reminds me of this quote he said: successful people do the things that people generally don't like to do.

That made a huge impact on my mindset toward every single one of my businesses.

I also realized that when I was a one-person operation and only had one site, one product, and involved in only one niche, I didn't think I needed these systems. But as you continue to grow, these systems become critical to growth, maintaining a high level of customer service, making sure the sales / ordering process is seamless as can be, and that product development and research doesn't take any more time than it needs to (how often have you see people post here that they started a project and then 8 months later they're still working on it here and there).

RoD