Owner To Owner Podcast

Les Watson aka Time Lord on personal productivity and time management

Episode Summary

Les Watson aka The Time Lord talks time management and personal productivity. Les is a specialist and shares his best advice on building a trusted system to help you achieve more in less time.

Episode Notes

@LesWatson (aka The Timelord) is a #smallbusiness #coach and #productivity expert.

He was inspired by and trained with @DavidAllen who wrote #GettingThingsDone. He uses the #GTDmethodology in his work to improve productivity management, build team leadership & develop communication.

Les believes higher productivity is determined by the answers to 2 key questions;

1. Where is your focus?

2. What do you want to do today? What do you want to do this year?

In our discussion we talk about;

Creating a goal and keeping accountable for it
The power of asking 'what do you want to get done today'?
Getting it out of your head and onto paper - the power of writing down what you want to get achieved (and avoiding being lost with 1000 other things going around in your head)
The key to effective time management being very clear about what you want to do with your time
The secret to project success;
1. What's the end result? What does done look like? What are you trying to achieve?
2. Second question whats next?
Identifying the telltale signs that signal someone is struggling at a personal level with all the overwhelm
The importance of better productivity to ensure you are keeping agreements with the people around you, the ones you love
The need to #lookafteryourself
Why you should treat yourself just as importantly as your highest paying client, your most valuable client.
Using your diary to create blocks of #metime
Why with all of us having the same 24 hours it's about how we prioritize the things that are going to give us the biggest return
Why leaders need to put their own mask on first before helping others.
The value of a walk around the block and enough sleep
The simple components of a trusted system - paper or electronic - where everything gets recorded to ensure it will get done
The power of having it all in one place
Doing a brain dump and enjoying the freedom and creativity that comes in there from that
Why the shortest pencil is longer than the longest memory
Write it down! Write it down! Write it down!
Creating accountability by meeting with somebody on a daily or weekly basis to discuss what worked, what didn't work is what I'm going to do differently next week.
Why you probably can't do it alone
The key to email managment - the 4 D’s;

do
dump
delegate or
decide / diarise

Making the hard decisions for an improvement in productivity
Becoming the role model in your business
#OneNote
Where you can get the book “get back an hour every day”