Every single day someone asks me how I do what I do. Trust me. I'm not a guru. I'm not even sure that I am doing a good job at what I do, but I do have a few strategies that seem to be working for me. I think they are transferrable and will also work for you.
One essential guiding principle in my life that I want to start this series out with is that I CHOOSE TO CHEAT. You should choose to cheat too.
The second thing I do that allows me to get a lot done in a days time is that I SQUEEZE every single second out of every single day.
Don't get me wrong…I rest. I watch a little TV. I pray. I hang with my fam and have fun. I joke around with my friends on Twitter. However, I use my Blackberry and my laptop (a cheap laptop I bought @ Wal-Mart and a simple Blackberry Curve) to get a lot of business done no matter where I am. Here are a few ways I SQUEEZE a lot out of my time every single day.
- I try very hard to respond to emails with short replies as soon as I get them. I receive nearly 150 real emails a day on busy days and have to respond quickly and briefly or I will likely not respond @ all.
- I am typing this post right now on a free computer @ Cactus Car Wash here in downtown Atlanta as I wait for them to clean my wife's car. That picture above is a pic from my Blackberry of me typing this post. I also took a TwitPic here.
- I regularly film videos while I am driving like the one I did for my post two days ago. As you will see from the comments, though, my wife is not pleased:-)
Finally- one way that I squeeze a lot out of my time is a little ironic. I squeeze a lot out of my time by NOT DOING A LOT OF STUFF that people ask or want me to do. I am able to do some of the things that I do fairly well because I say no a lot. This makes some people mad, but they aren't doing what I'm doing and aren't trying to go where I'm going.