Knowing how you spend your time each day and analyzing how you use it are big steps that will lead you to personal productivity that really works for you.

This is the final step in creating a process for maximizing your productivity to take the best practices you learned about in last week’s blog and maybe some others you know about, and fine tune your sense of priorities, putting them all together into a personal productivity system.

Here are some of the elements:

Make the most of your days. Document how you really spend your time and analyze the way that you use it. When you’re analyzing the best use of your time, ask yourself the question, Is this really something I should be doing, or is it something, given the resources, I could actually have someone else doing, if I had the right instructions and systems for them to follow? What am I doing when I’m doing the work? When I’m analyzing my own time, am I working in my business here, or am I working on my business? Am I working in putting my attention here on finance, operations, marketing? Where am I putting my focus here? Just analyze how much time I’m doing things and how much and what kind of work I’m doing.

Develop productive habits. Again, you’re focusing on the results. What’s going to be productive? Use a daily planner.

Design a new daily routine based on what you’ve learned about your own personal productivity. You might even design a weekly plan for yourself. A typical weekly plan, i.e. on Mondays I always do this, on Tuesdays I do that, this always happens on a Friday afternoon. Whatever it might be, start to create a routine for yourself and, as well as your weekly plan, a daily plan.

So that’s your routine and it’s all boiling down to you systemising yourself. I bring up systems and systemising A LOT so I think you’re starting to get the idea that you need to have a system for the way you work in and on your business.

Join me next week as we get into systemic thinking. Before you can develop the right systems, you have to have the right thinking in place.

Until next time…

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