manage your day

Manage your day

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Problem

We don’t have enough time

Why…

We let other people dictate our agenda We do too much with too little effect

We haven’t decided what is important

So what do we do?

Set a focus and follow it strictly.

- Learn to say no

Set a focus and follow it strictly.

- Handy tips

• First thing your should do every morning is to figure out what is most important that you get done today. Stick to this plan, and prioritise everything accordingly.

• Don’t do whatever is thrown at your, but evaluate it according to your schedule.

• Insist on an agenda for meetings and ask about urgency • Be honest about what you can get done in a day, and say no to the

other thing. • Make your own daily backlog

Work in the morning - routine in the afternoon

- Defend your creative time

Work in the morning - routine in the afternoon

- Handy tips

• We are most creative and inspired in the morning - don’t spend this time doing routine task like answering emails, doing time registration and doing scheduling-meetings. This time is for problem solving

• Book yourself out in your calendar in the morning to avoid meeting invitations

Work in sprints - with a timer

- Kill the background noise

Work in sprints - with a timer

- Handy tips

• Our entire office, our computer and our phone is set up to distract us. Turn it off and work focused for an hour at a time.

Get away from your work

- Make time to play

Work in sprints - with a timer

- Handy tips

• We cannot work focused and creatively for long periods at a time. So get away from your desk