Tips 1b - HOW TO BETTER MANAGE YOURSELF (2)

How To Better Manage Yourself (2) - continued

• Develop a faster operating tempo or pace. Do things with a sense of urgency. Get over thinking you must do everything yourself.
• Take time to be quiet and reflective for a few minutes each day.
• Live effectiveness in everything you do rather then just sporadically applying time management techniques.
• Live in the Now. The current instant is the only time in which you have control-not the past, not the future, just now, in this instant.
• Recognize you control only 50% of a relationship and that is your half. If you are dissatisfied with what is going on, change what you are doing and saying.
• Give yourself points for completing tasks on your "to-do" list in priority order. When you reach 10 points, reward yourself.
• Carry a card with your goals written on it and review your goals at least three times a day.
• Act with enthusiasm in all that you do.
• Take time out to thank yourself for a good job.
• Practice your personal beliefs. It may be helpful each morning to take 15 minutes to gather your thoughts and say a prayer.
• Operate knowing that there is good in everything. Every cloud has a silver lining-look for it.
• Whenever you have an important thought that is not directly related to what you are working on, write it down. Then you will not forget it and you also will no longer be distracted by it.
• Make a commitment to show someone a specific accomplishment on a certain date. The added urgency will help you feel motivated to have it done.
• Reward yourself when you have successfully completed a high priority project.
• Instead of thinking about what you didn't get done, recognize all you did get accomplished and reward yourself for having done the most important things.
• Keep a list of accomplishments as well as a list of "things to-do. You will learn just how much you do get done.
• Practice self determination, wanting to do it for yourself.
• Nothing takes the place of persistence. Practice "stick-to-it-iveness."
• Get into the habit of writing down a person's name- it will help you to remember it.
• Believe that you can be what you want to be.
• Operate on the philosophy that what we give out is what comes back to us.
• Occasionally, sit quietly and do a self-assessment of your skills and strengths.
• Praise yourself for your progress.

... to be continued