| You can become more productive overnight by adopting "Time Blocking" as part of your daily and weekly planning routine. Time Blocking involves splitting your time into manageable blocks of time (e.g. 30mins) and then blocking out time that you are going to use to focus on priority activities. For example, suppose you feel you need to spend at least sixty minutes a day calling your contact database. If you decide the best time to do this is in the morning when you are fresh, then you would block out the time from 9.00am to 10.00am in your schedule each day for calling your database. You then leave gaps around your blocks for unscheduled activities that crop up during the course of any day. At 9.00am each day, you down tools, get your favorite beverage, sit in a comfortable spot and call through the contacts on your list for the day. You keep calling until 10.00, when you take a break and deal with anything that has come up.  From 9.00 to 10.00, you do not allow any interruptions nor any change of activity. If a contact you call asks you to follow-up on something as a result of your call, you make a note and set it aside to do at 10.00, not as soon as you get off the phone!
In this way you build up time blocks for all of your high priority tasks so as to be sure they get completed before the low priority tasks. (You can also apply the same principles to ) | 
