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As many of you know I have been a student of Time and Priority Management for many years. In fact I teach and speak on the topic frequently. I recently read a piece on time and priority management by Dennis Vicars and I have shared some of his thoughts with you below. To help us examine if we are spending our time effectively Vicars suggests asking yourself questions such as the following: -Do I allow people to command my time in unproductive activities? -Do I have to do these tasks or can I allow someone else the opportunity to grow from the experience and free me up for critical activities that I should do? -Do I do certain activities that are consistent with my body clock so that I maximize performance while minimizing time usage? -Do I carve out time in the day where no one is allowed to bother me unless it is a life and death situation to a child, parent, or staff person? -Do I work on my really important stuff first or do I look for feel good checklist stuff of low priority and little value to my job? -Do I spend my time where my greatest rate of return will be? -Do I spend more time doing what is important as opposed to doing what I like to do? -Do we really need to have a meeting about this? I like the questions Vicars asks and I ask myself, am I spending my time as efficiently as possible? Am I having fun with my time? At work, am I spending my time doing what I enjoy, what I am good at and what brings the most value to my organization? The way we utilize our time is a series of decisions we make about opportunities that are presented to us. We say "yes" to some and "no" to others. Are we making the right decisions about how we use our time and with whom?
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