To paraphrase an infamous saying from the 60’s... I could Tune Out, Turn Off and Drop Out. This is a decidedly unproductive approach to project management.

How much of your “vital” time is spent unproductive activities?

Do you spend valuable time on activities that are seemingly important… only to find that the time you spend on these ”urgent” matters keeps you from performing tasks that are truly vital to the project at hand?

Here’s the business success tip - Make a distinction between those events in your life that are urgent and those that are vital.

You may be in the midst of an important assignment or responsibility and the phone rings. How comfortable are you allowing the phone to go unanswered?

You experience a sense of urgency. You’re being drawn to answer the phone.

You know that the call will be picked up by voice mail, yet you are compelled by some mysterious force to grab hold of the receiver, put it to your ear and say “hello.”

What would happen if you didn’t answer the phone? What if you kept doing what you really needed to be doing? What would happen if you could stay with the most important task until completion?

Here are a few questions to ponder as you prioritize your tasks. These questions are based on my system for clarifying your objectives entitled, “The Structure of Results.”

a) What’s important to you about completing the task? b) What will happen if you complete the task? c) What will happen if you don’t complete the task? d) What’s stopping you from completing the task?

Here is probably the best piece of time management coaching I have ever found. You might want to try it.

1. List your most vital tasks. 2. Prioritize these tasks. 3. Do them.

To your success

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