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:
Use caller ID. If calls are coming through that are “unknown”, then you can feel better about not picking up the phone.
Put your number on “Do Not Call” registries. This works for home [...]
Tags: telephone, time thieves
Implement the following ideas to avoid letting the telephone “steal” your time (and of course, it’s not the “telephone” that is stealing your time, now is it?)
Don’t answer the phone. If you are doing something that has your attention, don’t pick up the phone. Let your machine or voice mail pick it up. We often [...]
Tags: interrruptions, telephone, time thieves
Lurking all around you at home, at work, and everywhere in between, there are tasks, situations, technology, humans (and other mammals) who can potentially steal your time. Be on the lookout for the following time thieves:
Email
Telephone
Drop-in visitors
Procrastination
Self-distraction
Filing systems that aren’t
Energy suckers (which might include gossip or other negative and non-productive interactions)
Slow or inefficient reading
Junk mail
Re-thinking, [...]
Tags: efficiency, email, social media, time thieves
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