Spinning Plates Time Management - Updated & Improved
1. Time Management and Goal Setting Keeping the Plates Spinning without losing your sanity Marc A. Pitman, The Fundraising Coach, www.fundraisingcoach.com
2. Does you day seem a raging fire? Does your world feel perpetually on fire?
3. And you’re running around putting them out? And that your day is spent constantly putting those fires out?
4. What do you do when everything’s an alarm? How do you navigate your day when everything is an alarm?
5. My wife once told me, “Marc, no where is it written ‘Thou shalt not drop any balls’” My wife once told me< Marc, no where is it written ‘Thou shalt not drop any balls’”
6. Who am I? Certified FranklinCovey Coach Chosen for Seth Godin’sBullMarket Guide as a person “will shake things up” Creator of the Extreme Fundraising Ezine (http://fundraisingcoach.com) Author of Ask Without Fear! and Creating Donor Evangelists
26. The Myth of Time Management SPACE Stimulus Response
27. The Myth of Time Management SPACE Stimulus Response We really do get to choose
28. TOOL #3 :: Managing Up When all priorities are top priorities… what do you do?
29. TOOL #3 :: Managing Up List current tasks List all new tasks Individually, all of them look “top” priority, don’t they?
30. TOOL #3 :: Managing Up List current tasks List all new tasks Individually, all of them look “top” priority, don’t they? Ask for guidance Don’t let the simplicity fool you!
31. TOOL #4 :: Report Card List tasks Rank A, B, C Refine rank 1, 2, 3 BUT when all priorities are top priorities…what do you do?
32. Exercise: Personal Choose “Managing Up” or “Report Card” List out “top” priorities Prepare for your boss or circle what you’re “graded” on
33. Tool #5 :: MagnetGoals List 100 things to do Goals Dreams Wishes History of the Future IDENTIFY MagnetGoals
34. MagnetGoals List 100 things to do Health Money Relationships Travel Life-long Learning History of Future
35. MagnetGoals Let rest for 2-3 days Re-read and identify for “MagnetGoals” These are your 20%!
36. MagnetGoals Road Map Goal What? When? Allies & Resources Obstacles? Who can help? Coach or Accountability
37. Tool #6 :: Get Above the Trees Easy to neglect Easy to miss the forest for all the trees
38. Get Above the Trees Block out time Monthly check in (like at Starbucks) Block out WEEKLY time Particularly Sunday & late Friday COMMIT TO IT!
39. FREEBIE Tool #7 :: Scotty Technique Under promise over deliver
40. FREEBIE Tool #8 :: Unplug Your PC Incredibly increases focus
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