A short monologue by Sam offering practical productivity and time-management tips for meeting deadlines. Key recommendations include writing down daily targets (three top tasks), starting with the hardest task, avoiding email first thing, estimating task durations realistically (expect tasks to take longer), and leaving buffer time (e.g., 30 minutes) between meetings and reminders via calendar notifications.
Like sticking to deadlines I think again just writing things down and committing. So one of the things that I use in my self journal was I would commit to the three things I wanted to accomplish that day. And there was targets. When you write down a target, as everyone knows, you're more likely to achieve that goal or target if you write it down. So step number one is taking the time just to write the thing down on a bit of paper. As daft as it sounds, subconsciously your mind be attracted to that. Staying focused. So like, like I said, coming in the morning, starting the hardest task first, not checking email will keep you focused. Not taking on too many tasks. So always as a business owner, myself included, I mean I've had a manic day to day which is as you know, has been crazy. So I've had meeting after meeting, appointment after appointment and I'm having time to do videos, having the Google Calendar laid out. So making sure you have notifications 30 minutes before and actually stick to them and get your notific on so you know what's upcoming. It's probably a bigger one for productivity hacks and making sure that you stick to your deadlines and probably estimating time as well is the main thing. So will this thing actually take an hour? Is it actually going to take three hours every day? Like because everything always takes longer than you expect. So actually being realistic and how long things actually take, which is again what Chet Holmes talks around in the ultimate sales machine around time management is like actually writing down your tasks. But how long are things going to take? And actually predicting that it's probably going to take slightly longer. So you leave buffer, buffer space. So always try and leave buffers of 30 minutes between meetings as well because things could overrun because if you have a meeting 1 till 2 and 2 till 3, the chances are one's going to start later because one's going to overrun as well. So yeah, hopefully that helps. Sam.
