Redefining Time

Have you asked yourself why successful people create superior results and they still maintain a balance among work, family, and recreation in their lives.

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To gain this achievement there is a unique planning system that can structure your time into 3different kind of days that can be planned to assure the highest payoff of your effort while still allowing abundant of free time to pursue your personal interests._{This method was learnt from Dan Sullivan}

THE KIND OF DAYS THAT YOUR TIME CAN BE DIVIDED INTO

• FOCUSED DAY
• PREPARATION DAY
• FREE DAY

FOCUS DAYS

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A Focus Day can be seen as a day you spend at least 78%of your time working on yourself or your primary areas of expertise and also communication with people that impact you positively for the time you invest. Successful people schedule their best results days and keep accounts for producing the results. When you do something you love doing you find it hard to charge people for it. You do such things at a serious and it going to be fun while doing them but do you know you could make money doing those things. I can refer to those things as your Core genius which is your natural talent... I mean your area of shine.
Using myself as an example, my area of shine is when am playing the drums 😉, solving mathematics, writing and playing around electronic devices.I do these things easily and well and when I do them in a focused way, they’re the things I get paid the most money for. For me, a Best Results Day would be a day in which I spend 78% of the time playing on the drums or solving mathematics, writing or editing and article like this.

Another successful person that is a wonderful writer I know is JANET SWITZER which are best result days is writing, developing knowledge products, developing market materials or speaking to a group of consultants and business owners about production of exponential leaps in income generation_source.

your Best Results Day might probably be designing cloth, socializing, painting, going for shots, performing, writing etc.

PREPARATION DAYS

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The day you prepare and plan for the best results day either by locating a new resource or training your support team or learning a new skill or delegation of task and projects to others can be said to be your PREPARATION DAY

The essence of preparation day is to make sure your best result day is very productive. Preparation day for me is For me is taking my time understand rudiments of drums or learning how to write a good fiction most especially science fictions, improve my training skills, reading potential textbooks for my Msc Program. Yours could be writing a brochure, seeking out a mentor, preparing your studio for a recording session, developing a new sales presentation, writing an employee manual interviewing a new job candidate, attending an industry or professional convention, or training an assistant.

FREE DAYS

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A day with no work related activities is a free day. Days like this extend from midnight to midnight. Free days are days you don't attend business meetings, business-related phone calls, cell phone calls, e-mails, or reading work-related documents. Most cases you are not available to your staff, clients, or students for any kind of contact except for true emergencies like death, fire, injury, or flood. Most times some emergencies are not really emergencies at all. They’re simply employees, coworkers, and family members who don’t have enough training, responsibility, or authority to handle the unexpected situations that arise.

Note: you have to set clear boundaries stop rescuing people, and trust that they can handle things by themselves. When you train your employer, staff, and coworkers not to bother you on your Free Days, it forces them to become more self-reliant. It also forces them to grow in ability and self-confidence. If you are consistent over time, people will eventually get the message.

FREE DAYS HELP YOU WORK HARDER AND SMARTER

The value of regular Free days is that you come back to your work refreshed and ready to tackle it with renewed vigor, enthusiasm, and creativity. Successful people takes breaks like this to allow themselves some distance from your normal day basis life. You can become more creative in generating breakthrough ideas and solving problems. Everyone has ultimate goal for each year and if you take every weekend off doing no work whatsoever you would instantly enjoy vacation days. And if you found another free day in the form of long weekends, holiday weeks, 2 week vacations, and other opportunities, you could easily enjoy more free Days to recharge, rejuvenate, and rest with no laptops, no e-mails, no documents, and no contact with your staff, coworkers, or boss. It may take you a while to work up to achieve but the main thing is to constantly work to increase your number of free days every year.

FREE MEANS SOME DAYS WITHOUT THE KIDS, TOO

The question often arises about what to do with the children. For the most part, you need to take some time away from your children on a regular basis. If you can’t afford a babysitter, ask a trusted relative to take them. We’ve used both aunts and uncles and our 20-year-old nieces. If they are unavailable or unwilling, trade with other parents: You take their little ones for a weekend and they take yours on a different weekend. And don’t make the mistake of calling every hour to see how they're.

START SCHEDULING

The key to getting more Free Days and Best Results Days in your life is to sit down and schedulethem. By jotting down how many Best Results Days, Preparation Days, and Free Days you SPEND every month right now, you can work to increase the number of Best Results Days and true 24 HOURS. Free Days on your calendar, and reduce the number of Buffer Days. With this kind of schedule, You will find yourself creating greater results at work, enjoying more fulfillment in your personal life, and experiencing more balance between the two.

STEPS YOU MIGHT WANT TO TAKE TO BEGIN IMPLEMENTING THE TIMING

1. List the three Best Focus Days you have ever had. Write down any common elements. This Will give you valuable clues as to how to create more perfect Best Results Days. Plan for them.

2. Meet with your boss, staff, and coworkers to discuss how to create more Best Results Days where you can focus 78% of your time on using your areas of brilliance to produce your best
   results.