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94 Ways Of Controlling The Clock
Here are 94 positive action steps for you to choose from to help
you regain control of your time. We suggest you select eight or 10
of these steps and include at least one in your Daily Planner List, a
copy of which accompanies this Special Action Report. We’ve also
included A Daily Time Log sheet for you to photocopy and use
diligently to help you further in planning better use of your valuable
time.
PREOCCUPATION ... ALERTNESS ... ENERGISING
1. Cultivate observation
2. Perform tasks faster
3. Think with pencil in hand
4. Periodically remind yourself to “Think Alertly”
5. Do the job right the first time
6. Reduce preoccupation time
7. Locate energy losses
8. Unblock natural drive by doing what you enjoy
9. Establish a balanced exercise program
10. Be highly selective in what you read
11. Set up a systematic program for reading

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12. Double your speed of reading
13. Read a book like a newspaper
14. Do one thing at a time
15. Always have a high priority job with you for
when you have unexpected free time
16. Keep a writing pad accessible. Draw
pictures/diagrams as you explain a point to
visitors
17. Replace writing letters longhand with a
dictating machine
18. Dictate letters into a machine instead of
directly to a secretary
19. If possible, move your home closer to work, or
work closer to home, to reduce commuting
time.
20. Instead of bringing two or three individuals in
from different parts of the country for a brief
meeting, set up a “conference call”
21. When explaining an unfamiliar point, make
comparisons
22. Be aware of when you are tapering off from
peak levels of performance. At that point, shift
to another vital priority be on time to meetings,

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appointments and scheduled events
23. Reduce the overlong visitor stay
24. Reduce the overlong telephone call
25. Accumulate telephone calls and handle them
at a time when the chance of getting through
is most likely
26. If you have a secretary, use him/her to screen
incoming telephone calls and drop-in visitors
27. When a visitor stay is too long, have a co-
worker or secretary interrupt you
28. Establish an appropriate balance between
vocational work and management work
29. Retire early and rise early
30. Get the necessary sleep each night, but no
more than is necessary
31. Be sensitive to the vital priorities of others
around you
COMMUNICATION AND ATTITUDE
32. Take 100% responsibility when sending or
receiving messages to see that
communication is secured

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33. Ask others, “What can I do to help you make
better use of your time?”
34. Consistently use sincere positive reinforcers on
others
35. Use positive reinforcers on yourself
36. Reduce using negative reinforcers on other
people
37. Reduce using negative reinforcers on yourself
DELEGATION ... BOSS/SUBORDINATE
RELATIONSHIP
38. Earn the support of your boss
39. Enlarge your discretionary time by reducing
the time that is imposed by subordinates and
others
40. Instead of subordinates bringing you problems,
have them bring you the answers
41. Analyse yourself with the following questions :
42. What am I doing now that doesn’t need to be
done by me or anyone else?

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43. What am I doing that others can do?
MEETINGS
44. Hold meetings standing up to make them
shorter
45. Double preparation time for meetings and cut
meeting time in half
46. Have only those people in the meeting who
need to be there
47. Maintain a strict contract agreement as to
when a meeting will start and end. End the
meeting on or before the agreed time.
48. Avoid holding a regularly-scheduled meeting
and see if it makes a difference
49. Use a carefully-prepared agenda at all
meetings
50. When in a meeting where your time is being
wasted, ask the leader, “Is there any other
contribution I can make to this meeting?”
51. Discuss with meeting leader in advance where
you will be on the agenda, and get yourself
moved up, if possible.

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PHYSICAL WORK AREA, ORGANISING
52. Hold meetings standing up to make them
shorter
53. Double preparation time for meetings and cut
meeting time in half
54. Have only those people in the meeting who
need to be there
55. Maintain a strict contract agreement as to
when a meeting will start and end. End the
meeting on or before the agreed time.
56. Avoid holding a regularly-scheduled meeting
and see if it makes a difference
PLANNING, DAILY
57. Take more time for the systematic planning of
each day
58. Prioritise an action list each day
59. Make complete use of your planner by
planning, recording, cross-referencing
60. Keep long-range, prioritised, written goals in
your planner and refer to them each time a
daily action list or unassigned action list is
prepared (The three types are 1. Time

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Management, 2. Personal goals with the
company, and 3. Personal life goals)
61. Make a list of the "comfort zone" ideas,
people, physical locations, reading, actions,
and food, etc. to which you gravitate that are
inappropriate
62. Do at least three things daily to leave your
comfort zone
PLANNING, LONG RANGE
63. By a given date, write, refine and prioritise your
unifying principles. Evaluate your personal
performance with these principles
64. Review the mission and goals of the company
and department at designated times
65. Write, refine and prioritise personal goals with
the company by a given date
66. Refine your goals using a standard of excellent
performance
67. Refine all written goals, making them, so far as
possible, specific and measurable
68. Plan long-range goals as far into the future as
you can anticipate

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69. Write personal goals with a balanced
perspective so that they include the areas of
professional, financial, physical/recreational,
social, intellectual/cultural and spiritual. Refine
and priorities these goals
70. Write sub-goals to the life goals by raising the
question, “How can I cause each of these
goals to happen?”
71. Build continuity in goal planning by preparing
monthly and weekly goals from long-range
goals, and the daily action list from all of these
72. Share your goals with others and have them
encourage you
73. Occasionally ask “What is the greatest threat
to my survival professionally, socially, spiritually,
financially, intellectually and physically?”
HOW TO AVOID PROCRASTINATION
74. Set a deadline for each task
75. Prioritise an action list every day, seven days a
week, in your planner
76. Chain yourself to the desk until the
overwhelming vital priority is finished
77. Plan interruptions away from your vital priority

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time
78. Do the most vital tasks now
79. Use your secretary or others to reinforce your
vital priorities
80. Turn the difficult task into a game
81. Select the best time of the day for the type of
work required
82. Allow some open space for flexibility
83. When you bog down, leave the project until
your energies are renewed
84. Do the most difficult task that is vital first
85. Stay with the vital task until it is done
86. Don’t sit on projects
87. Institute a personal quiet hour
RESULTS… ACHIEVING WITH GOALS
88. Accept what you cannot change as a fact of
life
89. Reward yourself when a goal is completed or

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achieved
90. Always ensure that a goal can be achieved
REDUCING…TIME WASTERS AND TRIVIALITY
88. Say “NO” when a request is not vital
89. Note and determine what routines might be
changed to advantage
90. Reduce socialising time
91. Limit TV viewing to the “vital few”
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DAILY PLANNER
Daily Plan for ___________________________________ the _____ / _____ / _____
Item Today’s Tasks Time
Required
Priority Code
Planning the Day
6:00 1:00
:30 :30
7:00 2:00
:30 :30
8:00 3:00
:30 :30
9:00 4:00
:30 :30
10:00 5:00
:30 :30
11:00 6:00
:30 :30
12:00 7:00
:30 :30
Notes:
Priority
U = Urgent
A = Must Do
B = Should Do
C = Could Do
Code
 = Completed
 = Moved
O = Delegated
X = Deleted
“You can substantially increase your profits in less time and with
more enjoyment if you plan for the future, implement the plan
and monitor the results.”

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TIME LOG
Starting
Time
Finishing
Time
Function Performed Time
(Mins)
P
or
U
W
or
S
Comments
Daily Summary % % Comments ____________________________
Worked on planned job function _____________________________________
Worked on unplanned diversions _____________________________________
Worked on related functions _____________________________________
Social or leisure functions Record _______________________________
100% 100%
Record every function during the day. The amount of time in minutes. Tick the respective boxes.
LEGEND: P = Planned Function
U = Unplanned Diversion
W = Work Related Function
S = Social, Leisure or Personal Function

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