Everyone needs to be a leader in order to be effective. Even if you only have a team of one (you). If you don’t have time then you can’t lead, if you can’t lead you can’t be effective. All the time we hear or say, “I just don’t have the time to….” and before you think I am taking the high ground I am as guilty as anyone. However, over the last few years I have realised that releasing time to be effective is the most important thing. In a world where most people are an organisational shamble it is very likely that the only person who can lead you to effectiveness is you.
Normally the blogs I write during a week are on a whole series of subjects, but this week is different. Every blog will be on the subject of releasing time to be effective. It’s not all about the The Ivy Lee Method – How To Have An Effective Day as you can just click on this link and gets lots of information there and it’s not about the The Pomodoro Technique – How A Tomato Can Make You More Effective Important though these are and I won’t be able to resist mentioning them, I have written in detail about them before and it would not be an effective use of time to repeat myself.
The series of blogs this week is not about time management techniques, although they will feature in all the blogs. It’s about the stage before time management. The vital stage before we have time to use time management which is so often ignored.
I have a new project which I want to begin this week. The project is to finally begin the YouTube channel to accompany this blog. To do it effectively I need to release between two and three hours per week (every week) and so I thought I would take you on the journey as I put into practice the theories about which I have been writing. You will know if I have been successful in releasing the time because by this time next week the first video will be available to watch.
I have deliberately chosen a really busy week with many things with specific deadlines that cannot be moved.
A high-risk strategy. If the video is not there next Monday, you will know that I have failed to follow my own advice!!
Finally, the other rule. I can’t just add two to three hours to a normal working week. That would be cheating.
Each blog will outline the techniques I will use to release the time required. Today is a critical one as I need to plan the week in order to release the time. No plan means guaranteed failure. There will be no work on the channel today but my priority after I have written this blog is to do the plan.
I will share that with you tomorrow.
Why don’t you try the same techniques and follow along? Alternatively, wait until this time next week and see if I succeed.
The only trouble with that is you will have wasted a week waiting for me!!
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