How to progress efficiently with limited time per day

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Time is the biggest challenge in entrepreneurship and success belongs to people who know how to use available time efficiently. 

I recently shared some blog posts that help entrepreneurs to use their time efficiently and I am glad to see that a lot of you read them. If you didn't have the opportunity to read them: The first one was an article to discover 5 free applications that you need to have on your smartphone to make your commuting time productive. The second article was to make you discover a tool that helps you to prospect efficiently even if you work late at night. 

I have a lot of other tools to talk about but before I continue to share those tips, there is another method that really helps me and I want to share it with you as it can help you as well: let's call it the "10 actions a day".

Don't be scared 10 is not a huge number.

What is it?

Basically, what I do is that I make the list of ten very detailed actions that I need to do for the day:

  • If I do prospection for example, I will set the list of prospects to reach and each prospect will be 1 action. 
  • I can decide to find 5 prospects and make the follow up of 5 others. That's another example of 10 actions. 
  • Checking a supplier invoice
  • Visiting the website of a prospect 
  • Answering to the email of your mentor
  • Giving a call to a potential partner

So as you can see in this list of examples, the actions are very basic. They are defined to be easy and fast to achieve. It helps me to keep motivated and have the feeling that I did progress. 

What if some tasks are not simple?

If you have complex tasks to do, don't plan to do all of them the same day. Take 1 or 2 complex tasks and the rest of actions need to be very simple. 

What if I have also a lot of personal things to do?

Sometimes you just feel overwhelmed by other tasks around.  When I have a lot of things to achieve as well on a personal point of view, I integrate them in the list so I can clearly fix my planning and see how much I do for my professional life and how much for my personal life. 

At the end of the week, it is not just a feeling, I actually achieved some goals. Because a set of little things results to big actions.

So try this tips and tell me how it works for you. And please feel free to share your tips as well. :)






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