Tips for Staying on Top of Your Busy Days

Set two or three times a day to check and respond to emails. Return phone calls at 11.45 a.m. and 4.45 p.m. Or if you really want to avoid getting sucked into a long phone conversation, return calls at 12.15 p.m., while folks are at lunch. And so that's another way to save some time. The idea is to give yourself the time to focus on bigger projects by putting these little routine things that come up frequently,. setting them aside to specific times to get them completed all at once.