• Carry a schedule and record all your thoughts, conversations and activities for a week.
• Any activity or conversation that’s important to your success should have a time assigned to it.
• Plan to spend at least 50 percent of your time engaged in conversations and activities that produce most of your results.
• Schedule time for interruptions.
• Take the first 30 minutes of every day to plan your day.
• Take five minutes before every call and task to decide what result you want to attain.
• Put up a “Do not disturb” sign when you need to.
• Practice not answering the phone just because it’s ringing and e-mails just because they show up.
• Block out other distractions like Facebook and other forms of social media.
• Remember that it’s impossible to get everything done.
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