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How to get three hours back every day
Matt Heinz
President, Heinz Marketing Inc
matt@heinzmarketing.com
@heinzmarketing
Why Focus on Productivity?
1. Job success and satisfaction
2. Less stress in your professional & personal life!
3. Better work/life balance
4. Get the right things done
5. Quality over quantity
6. Tackle the BIG projects
Productivity Strategy
1. Focus and discipline
2. Constant prioritization and delegation
3. Mind like water
4. Bias for action
5. Focus on results (external impact)
Part One: Making Time
Avoid active transportation
Always have something to do
Get up earlier
Do important stuff first
Use television time
Use lunch time
Delegate
Learn to say no
Avoid and cancel meetings
Keep your email offline
Forward your phone to voicemail
Isolate yourself (sometimes)
Part Two: Using That Time
Daily Five & “1 of 5”
First 20 Minutes
The Binder
Three-tiered to-do list
3x5 card at the end of the day
Moleskine (or similar)
Clean, separate desk
Two monitors
No distractions
Two minute rule
Use rules
Waiting For file
Inbox Zero
Read It Later
Google Reader
Take home reading folder
Email rules for newsletters
Magazines: “scan & rip”
Jott.com
Morning Coffee
Dropbox
Timesvr
eLance
Toshiba ScanSnap
Gist
Organizing ideas
Questions?
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