OUR DAILY AGENDA DECIDES OUR SUCCESS!!!!

The Routine Work solution incorporates simple management processes to help you manage your non-project work. For example: an organization that has teams of people who have to deliver a large number of discrete pieces of work – such as a marketing and communications department perhaps.

The first step in determining your daily routine is figuring out what really matters to you. You can’t prioritize if you don’t know your priorities.

If you’re not certain of your principles, you can look at my pledges below and use them as a starting point.

1. Attitude: I will display the right outlook daily.

2. Priorities: I will act on the things most important to me daily.

3. Health: I will follow healthy guidelines daily.

4. Family: I will communicate with and care for my loved ones daily.

5. Thinking: I will practice good thoughts daily.

6. Commitment: I will make and keep proper promises daily.

7. Finances: I will properly manage dollars daily.

8. Faith: I will deepen and live out my faith daily.

9. Relationships: I will initiate and invest in solid relationships daily.

10. Generosity: I will model kindness daily.

11. Values: I will embrace good standards daily.

12. Growth: I will seek improvements daily.

With that for context, I’ll walk you through my typical day and teach you how to make yours as effective as possible.

Before we jump into the habits, let's take a moment and talk about the benefits of a morning routine. For starters, people are the most productive when they wake up, and setting up a routine ensures that they maintain that level of productivity for longer periods of time. ... Build the Perfect Morning Routine!

Prepare the Night Before

If it’s going to be successful, my day has to start the night before. Before I go to sleep, I do two things. First, I reflect on the day that’s ending. You will never make the most of the day that’s coming until you evaluate the day that has passed. Who did I help? What did I learn? Did I do my best?

Second, I look at the next day to see what I need to accomplish. I know I can’t be at the top of my game every minute of the day. So I look at my schedule and to-do list and decide what will be the main event. Then I make certain I can give my all to that most important thing.

Don’t try to prioritize your whole life. Just prioritize the day. If you can figure out the best possible way to spend four, eight or 12 hours, you can be successful.

As “ routine” jobs—often middle-class work based on a relatively narrow set of repeated tasks, such as welding-machine operators or bank tellers—disappear, many workers who would typically have held them have taken on lower-paying low-skill manual work or simply dropped out of the labor force, according to new research

Ask the Right Question in the Morning

Because I wake up knowing how I will spend my day, I’m able to hit the ground running. That leaves me with just one question to consider each morning: How can I add value to people today?

Asking this puts me in the right frame of mind as I approach my responsibilities. I want to make a difference. If I look for ways to add value to those I encounter, I will likely be satisfied with how I use my day.

Give Your Best

Parts of my day are routinely the same: I prepare at night. I get my mindset right in the morning. I try to carve out time to exercise in the afternoons when I’m at home or in the early mornings when I’m on the road. And I do things to help me grow personally (more on that shortly).

The rest of the day varies. Sometimes I’ll be speaking to live audiences. Other times I’ll be in meetings with leaders of my teams. Or I’ll write. Or I’ll be recording or thinking through future projects.

Whatever the day holds, I try to give my best. Success in life and leadership consists of being good in the moment. If you can be totally present physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually, you become a “100-percenter,” and those people are the ones who rise to the top and make a difference.

The best “100-percenter” I ever met was Bill Clinton. I got the opportunity to meet him at the White House during his second term. In our short time together, he focused completely on our conversation and made me feel important.

Learn

If you do everything I’ve listed, you will be able to add value to people and have a successful day. But how do you sustain that over the long haul? By adding value to yourself every day.

I grow by practicing what I call the “Rule of Five”—five things that I do every day:

1. Read. I am constantly feeding my mind. I try to read one or two books every week. Some I skim. Others I fully digest. I also listen to podcasts and other audio messages, the best of which I have transcribed.

2. File. It’s not enough just to read. The No. 1 time-waster for most people is searching for lost items. Whenever I find a good quote or idea, I file it. That way I can retrieve it within seconds or minutes.

3. Write. I help others primarily through books and speeches. That means I need to write continually. Look in my briefcase or on my desk and you’ll find files of material I’m working with to create new lessons and ideas.

4. Think. Perhaps the most valuable thing I do every day is stop doing and just think. I evaluate experiences, weigh opportunities, consider how to help my team and ask God for guidance.

5. Question. Good questions unlock doors and reveal opportunities. I feel so strongly about this that I wrote a book called Good Leaders Ask Great Questions, which will come out in October.

Renew Your Preparation

When I reach the end of the day, I repeat the process. I plan tomorrow and reflect on today. If I’ve added value to others, then I have done something to make my family, community and country a better place to live. Mission accomplished.

arly riser

If you enjoy a leisurely start to the day and like to awake at a reasonable time before showering and taking breakfast, then that would not be something you would normally find a business executive doing.

The typical morning routine for an executive would be to rise at about 6am and head straight to the home gym for a workout lasting roughly 45 minutes before hitting the shower.

The reason why exercise is considered to be so important in the daily routine for many top executives is that not only does regular gym time keep your weight under control, it also improves your mood and gives you an energy boost.

It seems that there is not always time left for breakfast after that start and if you haven’t eaten before it gets anywhere near 8am, it will be too late and you will have to get something on the go if you feel the need.

Handling emails

The typical top executive will spend an average of nearly 2.5 hours each day answering emails and texting, so the first thing many of them do when they arrive at the office is to spend the first hour or so trying to get caught up with everything in their inbox.

Assuming the typical amount of time for an executive commute, this will mean that they will have got the email tasks behind them by the time the clock hits 9.15am.

The next step is normally to set some goals and strategize for the days and weeks ahead. Planning and setting regular goals is one of the key attributes that allows a successful business executive to stay on top and maintain their level of success.

Meetings

If you made it to the higher echelons of management, your daily life will almost certainly consist of a large amount of meetings, either in person or via conference calls.

A typical business executive will spend another 2.5 hours of their day in meetings or participating in conference, in addition to the time spent handling emails and text messages.

Meals

There is normally a half-hour slot allocated for lunch at midday, especially if breakfast didn’t happen, but one thing that at least half of top business executives have in common is the fact that they don’t snack and still aim to have a healthy diet when they do grab a bite to eat.

Dinner is the meal that the majority of business executives do not miss and the aim is to sit down for dinner somewhere between 6.00 and 7.00pm, so there is time for about 1.5 hours of socializing with friends or family, before setting aside the rest of the evening for personal projects and personal development.

Typical profile

Many business executives who are following this typical daily routine will have worked their way up to their exalted position and have been with their present company for about six years on average.

Other aspects of your profile that might mark you out as future business leader will be that you have achieved a typical entry-level education of a bachelor’s degree.

You will also be earning a salary that is in the region of $250,000 per year or more, and gained at least five years’ experience in a related occupation to qualify for the rewards and position that you now command.

What you are expected to do

You will be expected to lead by example and top executives will often work closely with other executives and managers who are at lower levels of management.

A top executive is expected to be able to devise strategies and implement policies which will allow the business to meet its operation and financial goals.

If you are prepared to work long hours and are committed to continued personal development by learning new skills and techniques, you will at last have the basis of the qualities that will allow you to become a top business executive.

Planning Your Week: A How-to

 

GOALS

1.     Your weekly schedule prioritizes the highest leverage leadership practices:

a.     Cultivating School Culture.

b.     Improving Instruction: Observation, Feedback, PD, & Coaching.

c.      Developing Leadership.

    Note: Collecting, Analyzing and Acting on Data is imbedded throughout.

2.     All teachers are observed and receive feedback regularly.

Prep Work

“Student culture is not formed by motivational speeches or statements of values. It is formed by repeated practice—using every minute of every day to build good habits. From opening morning routines to the final bell, students receive a constant message that nothing is as important—and engaging—as learning.”

Step 1:

Determine all of the standing duties and office hours that you will be responsible for.Consider other times that your presence may be needed (morning arrival, transition times, etc.). Remember, if it is not you, indicate who it will be.

Step 2:

Determine all of the standing group meetings that you will be responsible for leading or attending.

TIPS:

·        Arrival, dismissal, passing times, recess, and lunch are excellent times to collect data on and help establish a strong school culture. Being visible and modeling your expectations is imperative!

·        Establishing standing office hours helps protect your time and sends a strong message that you value parents and students.Our daily routines can make a huge difference to how healthy, happy and productive we are. I’ve recently tried adjusting my own routine in the hopes of getting more done and wasting less time in-between tasks or activities.

While it’s important to understand how your own brain works and what routine will suit your body best, I always find it interesting to see what works for others when planning something new for myself.

Every day doesn't look exactly the same for me, but this is the routine I've been using and it seems to be working:

1. Wake up. Usually around 5 or 6 am (whenever our son gets up). ...
2. Make breakfast. ...
3. Write something, anything. ...
4. Check email. ...
5. Check in on social media. ...
6. Finish coffee. ...
7. Read something. ...
8. Go for a walk.

There are certain personality traits that make it easier to become a great leader, but the fact is that anyone can ascend to that level through commitment and discipline. Only through experience can you start to acquire the key knowledge and characteristics that facilitate leadership, but as long as you're dedicated to improving yourself as a leader, you'll constantly move closer to that ideal.

Even though there are no shortcuts to leadership, there are a handful of daily habits that all great leaders share, and adopting those habits can get you closer to your ultimate goals.

1. Learning Something New. You can never learn everything, so there's always something new to learn. Surround yourself by potential sources for new learning--to some, that might mean a bookshelf full of new material, to others that could mean a playlist of new podcasts, and to still others that could mean a bench of mentors and advisors to meet with. How you learn doesn't matter, as long as you're learning something, and no matter how busy you are, that process of learning needs to take priority.

It also doesn't always matter what you learn. Obviously, reading news and stories related to your industry is a good idea, but don't be afraid to brand out to new subjects that you wouldn't ordinarily consider. Seeing things from a new perspective might just give you the creative boost you need to solve that difficult problem.

2. Sticking to a Routine. Routines are sometimes a difficult balancing act. If you're too strict with your routine, you'll never try anything new and you won't be able to grow much as an individual or as a leader. On the other hand, having some grounding with a stable routine can open your efforts to be better spent on more complex tasks. For example, Mark Zuckerberg wears the same gray T-shirt every day in order to rid his life of complexity and reduce decision fatigue.

You don't have to wear the same clothes every day to see the same benefits. All you have to do is consolidate some of your less important tasks and processes into single, simple routines that you can do without expending any mental energy. That way, you can better focus on the more complex, demanding tasks that the day will inevitably offer.

3. Improving Something. Whether it's something in your routine, something in your office, or something in your business, find something to improve upon every day. Great leaders aren't content with their surroundings; instead, they're constantly challenging the status quo and finding new ways to innovate. If you make it a point to improve something on a daily basis, you'll learn to look for critical areas of improvement naturally, and before you know it, you'll be on a constant rotation of improving things in your life.

How you improve things doesn't matter as much as the fact that you are improving them. You could make a task faster to complete by making it less complicated, or make your desk better adapted for productivity by clearing off the clutter. As long as you're making progress, your improvement will count.

4. Taking Time to Decompress. Hyper-successful tech entrepreneurs have, on occasion, glorified the idea of working nonstop. For example, Marissa Mayer traditionally worked 130 hours a week during her time with Google, occasionally sleeping under her desk. To be sure, Mayer worked very hard and made a huge impact for her company, but that kind of work schedule will wreak havoc on you if you attempt it without taking critical time to decompress.

Though you may find it hard to incorporate at first, break time is important for your productivity as well as your mental health. Take small breaks throughout the day, and don't be afraid to take some vacation time during the year. If you constantly put your nose to the grindstone, eventually your abilities as a leader will wane.

5. Connecting With the Team. By definition, as a leader, you have people to lead. Those people are ultimately going to be the foundation for your success; if they are successful, you can consider yourself successful as a leader. Don't neglect them.

Take time every day to connect with your team, preferably on an individual basis. Talk to them. Ask them about their challenges and their ideas. Get to know them, and learn their strengths and weaknesses. It will strengthen your team's bonds and make you a better leader.

Incorporate these daily habits into your regular routine, and reflect on how they affect your capacity as a leader. Don't be discouraged if you don't see progress overnight; most leaders only become great after years or decades of unsteady progress. Your priority shouldn't be on achieving a particular result, but rather on creating a specific environment that will allow you to thrive.

 This is a list of different marketing methods you can use to hit 30 people a day easily. I’m not going to train or show you each one as I reserve that for those I personally coach and work with plus this is just a blog post. I prefer to teach to people’s needs and develop them into successful leaders.

How To Talk to 30 People a Day

1. Warm Market
2. Referrals
3. Craigslist
4. Facebook
5. Twitter
6. LinkedIn
7. Youtube
8. Referrals
9. Networking Events
10. Meet Up Groups
11. Bandit Signs
12. Drop Cards
13. Post It Notes
14. Speed Dating
15. Grab Biz Cards out of fish bowls
16. Grab Biz Cards off of Cork Boards
17. Call Realtor Signs
18. Call Business Owners advertisements
19. Buy Leads
20. My favorite is learn to generate online leads ( I generate 10 – 40 online leads a day)
21. Call Junk Mail you get
22. Prospect People you meet while out on errands
23. Where or have your product with you and people may ask you about it
24. Vehicle Magnets
25. Reach out to big online marketers
26. Contest Bowl for free _______ drop your biz card in for drawing
27. Go Through High school year book and reach out
28. Newspaper Ads
29. Magazine Ads
30. Flyers

Ok, there are tons of more methods you can do to reach 30 people a day, its pretty easy once you know how. There’s tons of more ways but im getting so tired of typing and the really good stuff is for my personal team.

What does your daily plan of action look like? What methods here have worked best for you? Leave a comment below to let me know.