Yow Kia

On 19th September 2007, I had to wake up at 5am. Early in the morning, I had to go to pick up a guest at River View Hotel at 8:30am, together with him, we visited Batam Factory together for 3 days 2 nights.

As usual, I would always plan to reach the destination before 30 minutes. From my home to the hotel, the journey was around 40 minutes. What should I do for the 70 minutes? Then, I remembered I have a set of Brain Tracy Audio files about how to manage your time effectively and I listened to them attentively when I went out from my house.

Here is the summary of the Audio files:

21 GREAT ways to manage your time effectively
1) Make a decision
=> Make a decision to be a better person.
2) Develop clear goals and objectives
=> Identify what the goal that you want to achieve
3) Plan everyday in advance
=> Plan the activities that you want to do in advance.
4) Use the ABCDE Method
=> Set the priority to the most important task.
5) Separate the urgent from important
=> Identify what are your urgent tasks.
6) Practise the law of forced Efficiency
=> Force yourself to do the important task first.
7) Apply the 80/20 Rule
=> Focus on your top 20% of task. 80% of success comes from 20% of activities.
8 ) Work at your energy peaks
=> Know when is your energy peak and perform the important tasks during your energy peak period.
9) Practise single handling with key tasks
=> Focus on only one thing at one time.
10) Eat that frog
=> The jobs that can make a big difference in your life are always big hard jobs (like eating a live frog). Don’t avoid the jobs!
11) Organize your work space
=> Keep your work place clean and organized so that you could search for necessary documents in short period of time.
12) Use travel time productively
=> Make use of the travel time to do something which is valuable to your success, for example, listening to educational audios.
13) Get better at your key tasks
=> If you need to type everyday, you have to master the correct way of typing.
14) Work in real time
=> Develop a sense of urgency – DO IT NOW!
15) Reengineer your work
=> Avoid the unnecessary tasks to complete your job.
16) Reinvent yourself annually
=> Look back in your past one year activities and decide whether these are the jobs that you want to do.
17) Practise zero based Thinking
=> Knowing what you now know you won’t start up again today, if you had to do it again.
18) Set clear posteriorities
=> Posteriorities are activites that you have to discontinue doing.
19) Keep your life in balance
=> The reason you are working is to earn enough to enjoy your family life. Keep your career and family in balance.
20) Plan every project carefully
=> You are project manager throughout your life. Start each project with a clear idea.
21) Be intensely action oriented
=> Take actions over and over again towards a goal. Only action is ACTION.