012: How to Better Manage Your Activities

Not everyone works with a vision. A lot of people do things just because it is customary. However, working with a vision in mind would help one know where they are exactly headed. It would also drive people to take action. And knowing how to make your time productive will eventually lead to better results.  Patricia Stepler works with business owners and entrepreneurs to increase their revenue and save more time by taking inspired action instead of doing things without a goal. She joins the podcast to talk about how one could achieve results, specifically in learning to delegate important things to accomplish your goal. Activity ManagementWe can't manage time, but we can figure out how to manage our activities. If you can group activities, set a certain amount of time, and then keep that in a block schedule. Because if you can set up a routine, it becomes a habit that you do them. You can start by doing the thing you don't want to do first. Because once you get out of the way, then you feel like a weight has been lifted. And it's also good to have times of the day where you don't take any interruptions because one of the worst things we have are these things that disrupt our thinking. Once you have a disruption like that, it can take 15 to 25 minutes to get back to where you were. And you end up wasting time during your day. So gripping activities is a great way to avoid that. Block ScheduleThere are a lot of techniques on block schedules. One could be blocking an hour of your time for a call with a client, a two for an email response, etc. However, as an entrepreneur, this might be difficult, and you'll end up wasting time instead of going back and forth. Others start by blocking out their morning to do the things that they need to do. Then set the afternoon to meet with other people. But you have to understand that this is also a mindset switch. Because everything you set yourself becomes your habits, it also means you have to do it regularly. You can create a list of activities you have to do and check