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Planning (Don’t leave home without it!)
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Planning goes a long way in helping your productivity. Whether you use a paper planner or a digital one, such as a PDA or a new iPhone is not the issue. You should use what works for you because you like it, not because everyone has one. The real benefit of having a planner of any type is actually using it to plan.
Set aside a time weekly that you can look forward into the next week to 30 days and review your appointments and assign your tasks. Making a giant to-do list, is not planning. After the to-do list is made, you will then need to assign a date or time frame to them. Without a deadline, how can you be accountable to completing a task?
Time blocking is a helpful tool to being more productive. Time blocking involves consistently setting aside a set amount of time for the high priority activities. For example, if you need to make sales calls, you would set aside a block of time each week, where you make those calls. This time should be uninterrupted. Let your emails go unanswered, close your office door and focus on the task at hand. Some may even find it useful to use a timer.

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