As soon as you open up Email you are on other people’s agendas. Give yourself 10 minutes each day thinking about what your priorities are and what you want to achieve before you set yourself adrift on that sea of email
Read MoreSMART Goals. SMART Goals and when to use them
SMART should not be applied to Goals at all. Getting SMART with day-to-day tasks and stepping stone objectives produces measurably better results. However if we are setting meaningful goals then applying SMART is counter-productive.
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Secondly, modern life, and in particular the ubiquitous nature of email these days means that at any given moment we have dozens if not hundreds of unfinished tasks on the go (often neatly measured by how many hundreds of emails you have in your inbox!)
Read MoreHow to be more Resilient
Don’t wallow in self-pity. I would say that Self-pity, not money or even the love of money is the root of all evil. It allows us to blame somebody else and let’s us off the hook for taking responsibility.
Read MoreHow to get back control of your Work Life
Set aside ten minutes each day before firing up your email. This will have a significant impact. Review what your long term and medium term (no more than eight weeks) goals are then write down one thing that you will achieve today to move in the right direction.
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