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Here are five more ways to be proactive about keeping chaos at bay. Implement the following ideas to avoid letting the telephone “steal” your time:

1. Use caller ID. If calls are coming through that are “unknown”, then you can feel better about not picking up the phone.
2. Put your number on “Do Not Call” registries. This works for home phones, but not for business phones.
3. Recognize that the way many companies are getting around “Do Not Call” registries is by saying that they are not selling anything, but are just taking a survey. Recognize these calls for what they are, and tell the person you are not interested and that you are hanging up. Don’t argue or discuss it. Give notice that you are hanging up, then do.
4. Be circumspect about giving out your cell phone number.
5. Recognize when you are using talking on the telephone to avoid doing something else you really need to! Be honest….we all do that sometimes.

Try at least one of these today and see what happens. 

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