One Time!
Sales Octane #12
If you follow the National Basketball Association you will notice T-shirts that are printed "and 1", representing the basket made with a foul and 1 free throw. The Nation Football League now allows for you to go for "2" points after a touchdown and Major League Baseball commentators will say "touch them all" after a home run.
If you want to improve on your time management skills you had better learn these words, "One Time".
Touch a letter "One Time". Read an e-mail "One Time". Open the file "One Time". Approve the invoice "One Time". Clearly communicate "One Time". Schedule the appointment "One Time".
I know that you have heard "if you break it, you bought it". Well in time management if you touch it, take action. Touch it "One Time". This is the first step to great time management. Don't open that e-mail or letter until you are ready to deal with what is inside of it.
Today you went into your office and on your desk were a couple of folders, a fax, and a letter that you will need to respond to today. As you read the first couple of lines in the letter you put it to one side. Why? Because you know that it will take more time than you have right now. You next pick up the fax and start reading when the phone rings. You are now pulled in another direction and put down the fax. After 10 or 15 minutes you pick up the folder to look inside. Just as you pull out the memo, the "you got mail" ding hits and you instantly look at your computer. You stop to read the e-mail, which needs action. But you do not have the time right now. You look at your clock and wonder where the first hour went this morning.
Do you realize that if you just spend 30 minutes a day in real time, you will waste 144 hours a year. This is equal to about 3 1/2 weeks of "where did the time go" or "who has time for a vacation". What about your staff? Are they as efficient as you are? I'll bet they can waste 1 hour a day or roughly 6 1/2 weeks of wasted time per year.
If you just touch it "One Time", just imagine what you can do with all your spare time.
You will find as you put this rule into action, the better organized you will be, the more efficient you will be, and the more work you will be able to accomplish.
Disclaimer: This rule has a rider for e-mail. The rider is "On Time".
Sign over your first born and read the small print.
E-mail is a tremendous asset, by it can kill your time management if you let it control you. The rule for e-mail is "One Time On Time", meaning you open you e-mail on time every day. I don't care what time you set. You can set 2 different times during the day. You only open you e-mail "One Time On Time".
E-mail is there for your convenience. E-mail can be a great tool or a hangman's noose.
Some computers have e-mail alerts constantly sounding. How can you concentrate. Concentration is like a your bi-cep, it strengthens them more you use it. If the "you got mail" alert comes in, your concentration is broken and you become less effective. Less productive.
Believe me if it's the President, he will call.
Now that you know one of the most important time managements skills, what are you going to do?
Practice and master this skill, you won't believe the difference. Implement this skill company wide and you will start moving productivity in the upward direction in "No Time".
If you follow the National Basketball Association you will notice T-shirts that are printed "and 1", representing the basket made with a foul and 1 free throw. The Nation Football League now allows for you to go for "2" points after a touchdown and Major League Baseball commentators will say "touch them all" after a home run.
If you want to improve on your time management skills you had better learn these words, "One Time".
Touch a letter "One Time". Read an e-mail "One Time". Open the file "One Time". Approve the invoice "One Time". Clearly communicate "One Time". Schedule the appointment "One Time".
I know that you have heard "if you break it, you bought it". Well in time management if you touch it, take action. Touch it "One Time". This is the first step to great time management. Don't open that e-mail or letter until you are ready to deal with what is inside of it.
Today you went into your office and on your desk were a couple of folders, a fax, and a letter that you will need to respond to today. As you read the first couple of lines in the letter you put it to one side. Why? Because you know that it will take more time than you have right now. You next pick up the fax and start reading when the phone rings. You are now pulled in another direction and put down the fax. After 10 or 15 minutes you pick up the folder to look inside. Just as you pull out the memo, the "you got mail" ding hits and you instantly look at your computer. You stop to read the e-mail, which needs action. But you do not have the time right now. You look at your clock and wonder where the first hour went this morning.
Do you realize that if you just spend 30 minutes a day in real time, you will waste 144 hours a year. This is equal to about 3 1/2 weeks of "where did the time go" or "who has time for a vacation". What about your staff? Are they as efficient as you are? I'll bet they can waste 1 hour a day or roughly 6 1/2 weeks of wasted time per year.
If you just touch it "One Time", just imagine what you can do with all your spare time.
You will find as you put this rule into action, the better organized you will be, the more efficient you will be, and the more work you will be able to accomplish.
Disclaimer: This rule has a rider for e-mail. The rider is "On Time".
Sign over your first born and read the small print.
E-mail is a tremendous asset, by it can kill your time management if you let it control you. The rule for e-mail is "One Time On Time", meaning you open you e-mail on time every day. I don't care what time you set. You can set 2 different times during the day. You only open you e-mail "One Time On Time".
E-mail is there for your convenience. E-mail can be a great tool or a hangman's noose.
Some computers have e-mail alerts constantly sounding. How can you concentrate. Concentration is like a your bi-cep, it strengthens them more you use it. If the "you got mail" alert comes in, your concentration is broken and you become less effective. Less productive.
Believe me if it's the President, he will call.
Now that you know one of the most important time managements skills, what are you going to do?
Practice and master this skill, you won't believe the difference. Implement this skill company wide and you will start moving productivity in the upward direction in "No Time".
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