This week’s challenge: The 90-Minute Plan

When you are the leader of a company, you have a lot of people pulling you in different directions. Everyone always needs something from you and as the leader, it’s important to be accessible right? The more success you have, more opportunities become availabe and the harder it seems you have to work. You find yourself going a million miles an hour in all kinds of exciting directions. In fact you could work 24/7 if you could get by without sleep – and I know you’ve tried.

Well this week’s challenge is to spend at least 90 minutes a day, preferrably the first 90 minutes of your day, completely focused on one thing.

Here’s how you do it:
Choose – Determine the night before what work you want to give your complete attention to. It should be what you consider most important – that is, what will add the most enduring value if you get it done. Important but not urgent.
Start – Start at a very specific time and hold yourself to that time. Don’t let yourself answer that one email or make that one phone call. Finding an excuse to avoid hard work isn’t hard to do. Turn off your email, close all the windows on your computer, let the phone go to voicemail. Then focus, uninterrupted on the task at hand.
Stop – Set your timer for 90 minutes and stop no matter what point you are at. You will train yourself after a couple sessions to get what you need to get done during that time period.

Choose, Start, Stop. Build this practice into your daily ritual and you will achieve staggering results. You will get more done in less time. Train your team to do it too.

Implement your strategy by focusing on 1 thing 90 minutes at a time. Do more by doing less. Take it on.

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