Hi there. Today I will like to share with you the wisom of Ivy Lee. If you are a person who doesn’t really have a good system in place for getting things done then I am sure you will enjoy this post.

Charles Schwab was the chairman of the Bethlehem Steel and he was a very important man who did not really have a lot of free time cause he was very busy seeing about the affairs of the company.

Now one day a business consultant by the name of Ivy Lee came up to him and said that he had a plan that if Mr. Schwab used it, would greatly increase his productivity.

Now Mr. Schwab had heard of all the strategies to increase productivity before so he wasn’t going to be fooled by this man. However Ivy Lee made a proposition. He said that he will give him the strategy for him to use and then only after using the strategy he should pay him how much he thinks that strategy is worth.

Now Charles did not have a problem with this since all the risk was on Mr. Lee’s part. Ivy Lee handed him the strategy and he used it in Bethlehem Steel. Several weeks later, Ivy Lee received a check for $25,000.

Now I am sure that right now you are probably wondering what it could be that could be worth so much money. Let us call it the success six.

This was what Ivy Lee handed him on paper

1. Write down 6 things you need to do tomorrow and number them 1 to 6.
2. Take that list and arrange it in order of importance
3. When you start the day begin the first task and don’t do any other task until you have finished the one above it.
4. Work on down the list and when the list is through prepare another list for the next day
5. Do this every day and after doing it share it with your people

Now that was the advice that Mr. Charles Schwab paid $25,000 for. Why not try it in your life? Why not try it and see if it helps you life in any way.

Thanks for reading this post and please feel free to leave your comments.

How to make the most of your priorities is a post from: Brian's Motivational Blog

Hello people. I hope you all are enjoying this series on Time Management Techniques. In today’s post I want to talk about a concept called clean focus.

Now I am sure you are probably wondering what I mean by clean focus, so here is the answer.

Many times when we are doing something, we tend to lose our focus and stray a little. For e.g sometimes I may be reading a book or something and while reading the book, my mind begins to stray and think about what is going to happen tomorrow, or who is the best actor right now, or what is the best movie showing in the cinema at the moment or some weird thing….

This is what is called unclean focus. The focus is not clean. We need to have clean focus.

Clean focus is where you try to focus on one thing for approximately 50 minutes and when you see yourself starting to lose focus, you try to get back your focus gradually…. Don’t rush it but gradually get back your focus on the task at hand.

This is very similar to the last post about time management techniques but they are all very inter-related.

The fact of the matter is that having focus is key to getting anything done in your life and if there is no focus then you are just mistaking activity for productivity. You can set a schedule and say you are going to study Maths for 1 hour but if during that 1 hour you are doing non mathematical related stuff then you are just wasting time and fooling yourself.

Start applying this time management technique called Clean Focus and see the difference that it makes.

Thank you and have a very productive day!!!

Time Management Techniques (Part 5 of 7) is a post from: Brian's Motivational Blog

Hi there folks. I hope you are enjoying these time management techniques that I am sharing.

The third technique I will like to share on is called enlightened multitasking.

Before I share what this means, let me just say that a study was done that shows blackberries lower iq more than smoking pot!!! Yes your heard that right. People who are on blackberries tend to multitask too much and this it seems could lead to a drop in iq.

So what do I mean by enlightened multitasking? In the last post I talked about scheduling your interruptions and when you are doing this you can try to do as much multitasking as possible because you are in an interruption time. e.g you return as much calls as possible, reply to as much email as you can, read as much email as you can etc.

You are given permission in this time to do multitasking because I know that there are some people who cannot help to not multitask. This is one point in time when you can feel free to multitask.

Just remember that after this time is over, you stop the multitasking and you then focus for a given period of time on the task at hand.

So that’s it for tip number 3. Hope you enjoyed it. Happy Multi tasking!!!

Feel free to leave a comment.

Time Management Techniques (Part 3 of 7) is a post from: Brian's Motivational Blog