Have you noticed how busy everyone is?
When you walk down the street or sit somewhere for a coffee, look around, and you’ll see most people engaged with their devices. Mobile phones and tablets are wonderful tools that keep us in touch with what’s happening in the world, and with our contacts nearer home.
We’re all busy. When you’re trying to get someone’s attention with an email or another piece of marketing material, the gurus will tell you that you have to try seven or more times before you should expect a result.
If you follow Twitter, or you’ve tried to do so, the sheer volume of comment can be overwhelming, and the same can be said of Facebook. Keeping up to date with the minutiae of your friends’ lives would leave you with no time to do anything else!
Even if you don’t use social media, it’s really easy to spend all day just reading and responding to emails.
The danger with this is that you are only ever reacting to inbound information – or noise – and not being proactive and moving towards your objective.
You do have an objective for today, don’t you?That sounds like such a big thing. The objective. It’s rather a grandiose term and perhaps a little intimidating, isn’t it?
Let me simplify it.
At the start of each day, ask yourself: “What am I going to achieve today?’
How you answer this will set your objective for the day. It’s not complicated, but it is important – important enough to write down and remember it.
When you’re taking a break – perhaps when you go to get a coffee, or perhaps at lunch, take a look at the objective and measure how much progress you’ve made towards it.
Repeat the exercise at the end of the day.
You’ll be amazed at how much more you get done when you stick to the task you’ve set yourself!