Some days don’t you have the sensation that you have not done anything during the more than 12 hours that you have been awake? It is because we just accomplish the 59% of the daily duties that we wanted to do.
The reason? We start our day by doing the activities that we enjoy leaving to the end the worst ones, so we find ourselves working endless days that we never seems to end. Besides, we do not distribute our hours properly and do not establish priorities.

The solution? Read this Decalogue and apply it today.

1. You have to separate personal from work matters. It is better to apply the rule of 8 hours: 8 hours of work, 8 hours of entertainment, and 8 hours of rest.

2. Very important: prioritize. Not all the tasks are equally urgent you have to establish an order to your actions. Start with indispensable tasks and finish with the least important ones. In this way, if you don’t have time for everything, you will not be burdened with the fact that some of the important tasks were not completed.

3. Learn to say “no”. If you won’t have or be pressed with time it is better to say no. Everybody have their limits and you are not the exception to that.

4. Plan. Get an agenda to have everything under control and establish and order. In this way you will not miss anything.

5. Respect the time that you decide to dedicate to each thing. If you start to exceed your allocated time in each task, at the end you will not accomplish even half of your tasks.

6. Be punctual. In this way you will not have to leave later and you will not make others waste their time.

7. Avoid presenteeism. Being seated in your office for 12 hours does not mean that you are more productive.

8. Have Meetings just when they are necessary. If you can communicate decisions of change of plans by telephone or by e-mail it will be faster.

9. Establish a schedule for the meetings. In this way they will not last longer than needed and they will not produce delays in everybody’s daily work.

10. Replace business lunches by breakfast. This way it is possible to deal with the same subjects in half the time.