From the course: Time Management Tips: Scheduling

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Plan quarterly to improve productivity

Plan quarterly to improve productivity

From the course: Time Management Tips: Scheduling

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Plan quarterly to improve productivity

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- Occasionally people are surprised when they find that I don't recommend that you do planning on a daily or weekly basis. Part of the reason for that is that I recommend that you're processing consistently weekly. That means that you're taking all the items that you have to deal with and deciding what, when, where. If you're doing that, if you're processing on a consistent basis, your schedule is probably already full. At least a couple of weeks out if not a month or two. So does that mean that planning as no value at all? Well I believe that it has value if we do it in the bigger picture. For instance, quarterly. That means that every three months we want to sit down and establish the new things that we're going to accomplish, make commitments to them, and then schedule some time to work on it in our calendar. So step one of this quarterly planning session is to review our targets for the quarter. A target is something…

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