One of the most effective ways we have to manage our life and our business is by giving closer attention to our time. My iPhone now gives me a summary every Sunday how I spent my time on my phone. Quite an eye opener to be sure! I wish I could use that tracking on everything I do outside of the phone, giving me the ability to accurately know where all my time goes each week. I have started looking differently again at my time as I do during this month every year. This year I have decided to go back to a habit I drifted away from and that is giving every work day a regular theme and focus. The idea behind this is that you are grouping your activities and energies around a common theme versus being all over the board running from here to there every single day. More intention, less reaction. With my clients this month I am working through a process based on a worksheet called Time for Income. The goal is to have them start to look at what is taking their time (like the iPhone) that they could be better spend elsewhere enhancing their business. And once that is accomplished, find quality chunks of time on a given day to put your focus where it gives you the best results. The 5 ways to protect and leverage your time during the days of the typical M-F, 8am-5pm work week is to give each day the dedication to a task or process that matters most to the success you wish to achieve. I learned this technique many years ago during a coach training by the late Jennifer White, and Jack Dorsey (CEO of Square and Twitter) also follows this method. You may only need an hour or two each day to accomplish the tasks required once you do it on a regular basis allowing you to dig deeper into that element instead of always playing catchup and cleanup. For myself here is how I have decided to let it shake out for now, allowing it to shift as required as this is a very fluid process. Keep in mind while I have emails, client calls, etc. throughout each day just like you this is where I want to focus my intention on during each specific day of the week. Monday Money and Business Management Work on the core elements of my business, especially around the financial element. Tuesday Coach and Inspire One of the two days a week I dedicate fully to coaching and enhancing my coaching tool kits in between client coaching appointments. Wednesday Partnership Building and Booking Speaking Engagements Partnerships come in all shapes and sizes and it’s important to nurture those relationships as well as seeking out future speaking and teaching opportunities. Want to partner with me? Send me an email. Thursday Coach and Inspire Second day of my week dedicated to my clients, because some days you simply need to rinse and repeat to finish up the work that needs to be done. Friday Marketing and Growth From creating new content materials (like this letter) to finding ways to educate and inspire myself in order to inspire others, on Fridays I like to stretch my ideas and find new ways to grow. What would your perfect week of intention look like? Download the Time for Income Chart and begin to take a stronger hold on what you allow to have happen with your time each day: http://www.businessvictories.com/blog/more-intention-and-less-reaction Whether you work for yourself or someone else it’s your mindset and what you do with your precious time that really matters!