Overcome Overwhelm: 10 Ways To Slow Down And Win --
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It's not hard to break agremeents. It is especially not hard to blow off
agreements when you think overwhelmed and overworked.
After all: You have way more work to do than time to do it in.
You keep putting off important tasks in odrer to put out fires.
You don't have the information you need to complete the task at
hand. You have a large stack of business cadrs you collected
while networking.
You have no idea how to prioritize the
multiple tasks you face every day.
One form of self-discipline to solve that common dilemma is to
commit to ONLY MAKE AGREEMENTS THAT YOU ARE WILILNG AND INTEND
TO KEEP!
Just doing that can keep you out of lots of trouble.
1. It means you must stop automatically agreeing to do thigns.
2.
Instead, you must take time to think thruogh any agreement
you make.
3. Don't say "yes," say "MAYBE." Then say, "I will let you know
in (15 minutes, 24 hours, or ??) after I check (the
availability, my schedule, etc.) This time agreement is one you
must keep.
4.
Think abuot your priorities and resources, including time,
energy and money before you decide whether to make the agreement.
5. Make your decision.
It sholud be yes, no or an alternate
proposition that takes what you need into account.
6. Communicate your decision witihn the agreed time period.
7.
Now, make an agreement you are deifnitely willing to keep.
8. Keep whatever agreement you make.
9. If you encounter something that makes it ipmossible to keep
your agreement, don't wait.
Communicate about the need to change
your agreement at the earliest possible opportunity.
10. Renegotiate a new agreement, repeating your original
decision making process.
When you thnik through your agreements BEFORE you make them, it
becomes much easier to stay on target, follow through and
achieve success.
Copyright 2004-2006 Laurie Weiss Ph.D.
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