How to limit your time wasters:
Social
- Take advantage of voice-to-text features such as transcribed voicemails or to make notes or draft emails and text messages when you are on the go.
- Avoid small talk. Stay focused.
- Take any necessary action immediately following a call.
- Impose screen time limits and regularly monitor your digital wellness (see Strategy 10).
- Schedule breaks from your devices.
Email
- Set aside a specific time to view and respond to email, but don’t let it accumulate to the point it becomes overwhelming to sort.
- Turn off notifications for email.
- Handle each item only once if possible.
- Immediately delete or unsubscribe from junk emails.
- Keep address books up-to-date and organized.
- Utilize built-in shortcuts to sort email.
Unexpected Visitors
- Schedule time for face-to-face visits.
- Inform visitors of your time constraints and politely offer to reschedule.
- Set a mutually agreeable time limit for the visit.
- When someone comes to the door, stand up and have your meeting standing to help keep it brief.
In-Person and Virtual Meetings
- Know the purpose of the meeting in advance.
- Arrive early.
- Start and end the meeting on time.
- Prepare an agenda and stick to it. Use a timed agenda, if necessary.
- Don’t schedule meetings unless they are necessary and have a specific purpose or agenda.
- Use recording software or designate a note-taker.
Family Obligations
- Use and sync virtual calendars for easy sharing between busy family members.
- Make each family member responsible for consulting the master calendar for potential conflicts.
- Create a central area or agreed upon app for posting communications such as appointment reminders, announcements, and messages.
RESOURCES: https://extension.uga.edu/publications/detail.html?number=C1042
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