My program Pump Up Your Productivity™ contains a 22- step process for the common abusers of organization and time. Created here is the list of the top ten.

1. Telephone interruptions – Do not reply to calls when you are in meetings or working on other vital projects.
2. Crisis management – What is urgent to you is not necessarily urgent to others and vice versa, ensure you negotiate to have your time interrupted.
3. Lack of priorities, goals, planning – Remember to plan your day and prioritize all.
4. Drop-in visitors – Everyone should make appointments, plan for interruptions and when they occur ensure you can place other things aside.
5. Ineffective meetings – Never attend a meeting without a proper agenda or time frame.
6. Attempting too much – This pertains to prioritizing and ensuring you know that first things are first.
7. Too many meetings – Only attend meetings that inform and educate, avoid others at all costs. People will waste your time because they can.
8. Personal disorganization – Use your planner and keep track of time and appointments. Files help place papers in an orderly fashion. To Do’s enable you to prioritize your list and leave 15 minutes earlier if you typically run late.
9. Inability to say no – Say it and practice in the mirror you will never regret it.
10. Lack of self-discipline – Optimizing your organizational skills requires change. Similar to clients that want to lose wait and gain symmetry, you seek their change now the fitness test is on you!

Finally there are three final points on organization and keeping sane:

1. Create checklists – Do not obfuscate your day, keep things simple and easy with a checklist and memory joggers.
2. Refrain from clutter bugs – keep one list and only one list.
3. Lose trying to control everything – you will never control your life only influence it, however the less interruptions the better.

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