Time as a Priority
Do you have an iPhone? I ask because there is a feature on the iphone that I finally figured out how to use to my advantage.
Do Not Disturb.
Listening to a speaker (that I wish I could credit but can't remember her name - sorry!) and she gave some offhand remark about how she manages email. That specific task always gets my ears to perk because I subscribe to the thoughts on how to manage your inbox from reading Bit Literacy by Mark Hurst. Highly recommended.
What she said that rang true was something like "I felt like a slave to that new mail notification so I turned it off and now only check email 4 times a day." Or something like that. It's true - a common time management practice is checking email once or twice a day etc. Focusing on the task at hand in the between time.
That's what led to remembering that Time is a Priority, not at limitless resource. During coffee with a couple of sales managers they said (almost in unison - it was spooky) "everyone has 168 hours in a week". So true.
You can't make more time, so you prioritize it.
That was the cue to refocus my time and that's what led to the Do Not Disturb epiphany. When knee deep in a task, do not allow that phone to prioritize my time for me. Calls and texts are the worst.
Enter DND. It works when you go through your contacts and prioritize the people that can get through the DND setting (along with people that were repeatedly trying to get through). I started using it last Thursday. During my allotted task time slots, I put on the DND and focus.
Prioritize.
It's the small things that bring me joy and today it's the Do Not Disturb!
Good stuff.
