Feeling pushed to cope on a busy day?
You could turn it all around in just ten minutes. In a standard working day of eight hours, ten minutes could be the key to unlocking great productivity and saving yourself from stress.
It sounds do-able, even for the most stretched of us, but ten minutes each day can make all the difference.
If you can’t seem to get that large project out of the gates, are procrastinating rather than sending that awkward email or you’re missing something to help you begin a task, ‘taking ten’ could be the key to finally getting started.
Ten Minute Planning Is The Key
At the start of each day, block out ten minutes in your schedule to set your priorities for the day.
It’s much better to start the day like this with a plan, and you have a much better chance of achieving what you set out to do.
If you jump straight to your emails, you are likely to get pulled into things and end up acting according to other people’s priorities rather than your own.
Keep your larger goals – KPIs for key projects, or performance expectations for the year, somewhere you can see them.
Evaluate the actions you need to take each day in light of your wider aims – are they going to get you closer?
You can even start using a prioritisation matrix to decide which tasks to delegate and defer.
Your power ten minutes can also include filing or deleting emails to keep your inbox more manageable. Whatever the day can throw at you, taking those ten minutes to set out your day ahead is the start of a big difference. Got an appetite for productivity?
This infographic can show you how using part of your ten minutes to sort your desk can give you another boost:
Infographic Design By Autonomous
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