Are You Managing Your Time or Is Your Time Managing You

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Are You Managing Your TimeorIs Your Time
Managing You??

• Reaching your goals through effective time
  management.

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Prepared by

• Lee Gross, REE Margot Rudstrom
• Farm Business Mgmt WC-ROC
• St. Cloud Morris
• Chuck Schwartau, REE
• Dairy Systems
• Red Wing

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Presented by

• Lee Gross, REE Margot Rudstrom
• Farm Business Mgmt WC-ROC
• St. Cloud Morris
• Chuck Schwartau, REE Gene Krause, REE
• Dairy Systems Dairy Systems
• Red Wing Baudette
• Vince Crary, REE Paul Mahoney, REE
• Dairy Systems Crop Systems
• New York Mills Hinckley
• Tim Dolan, REE
• Dairy Systems
• Gaylord

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Where does your time go?

• Is it a balancing act between what you like to do
  and what needs to be done?
• --or--

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Your time---

• Does time fly by and you arent sure where it
  went??

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When was the last time you ---?

• Talked to your family about your personal,
  family and business goals?

• Took time to identify the main challenges facing
  your business?

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When was the last time you ---?

• Had time to pursue a hobby or a personal interest?

• Planned to do something only for fun?

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How are we going to approach this ?

• Prioritize your personal, family and business
  goals!
• Lets take that time right now!

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Diary Your Dairy Day

• Do you really know what you do each day?

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Diary Your Dairy Day

• Do you really know what you do each day?
• How much time do you typically spend on tasks?
• Invite someone to shadow you part of the day that
  it may be difficult to track yourself
• Dont forget the little stuff!

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Examine Your Dairy Diary and Organize Your Work

• What is being done?
• Who is doing it?
• Is it a routine job done daily? Weekly? Monthly?
• Does it have a regular place on the schedule?
• Where does it fall on the priority list?

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Examine Your Dairy Diary and Organize Your Work

• What are the implications to yourself and the
  dairy if the job doesnt get done in a specific
  time, or at all?
• Are there jobs on your list that could be done by
  someone else or hired out?

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Do a Daily Close-out

• What was on the list that didnt get done ?
• Why didnt it get done?
• Does it need to be done yet today?
• Does it need to be done at all?
• Did not getting it done really make a difference
  somewhere in the operation?
• Did you miss any of your priority items?

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Do a Daily Close-out

• Congratulate yourself for the accomplishments of
  the day rather than dwell on what didnt get
  done.
• Multi-tasking may look good but it may be better
  to take one task at a time and do it right.

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Time Tactics of Very Successful People .. B.
Eugene Griessman

• Tasks are not of equal importance.
• Create a To-do list that works
• Write it down
• Include your priority items!
• Limit items on the list
• Assign dates and times
• Create a separate long-term list

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How to Get Control of Your Time and Your
LifeAlan Lakein

• What is the best use of my time right now?

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Hopefully some of these ideas will help you
answer, When was the last time you ---?