Aseem Puri

1. If its urgent they will reach out to you again 2. One phone call saves several emails 3. Cancel the FYI meetings 4. Only one person from each team should attend a meeting

Clean up your email. Spend a few hours or if needed a full day to clean up your email. Delete the useless emails and unsubscribe to things you do not need any more. Read all the other emails. Reply to the ones that need to be. Clean up your email and go to inbox zero. I write about increasing your productivity on my blog and new book: Get 10X Productive, https://aseempuri.com/10x-productive-2/

Choose the big important tasks that matter the most to you – Spend 30 minutes to write down the things that you want to accomplish this year or in the next few years. Ideally 2-5 goals should be sufficient. Imagine in your mind that you have accomplished them. How do you feel ? Block “Deep Work” Time on your calender – Choose a time slot on your work days when you will commit to interruption free time. This can be 30 minutes to start with. Turn off all devices and the internet in “Deep Work” Time – Whatever you set out to do, the whats app and email messages, the pinging on the computer. Put your phone away where you cannot reach it. Do the Deep Work.Stop and reward yourself. I write about 10X Productivity on my blog: aseempuri.com

We know that most people at work have infinitely more potential to contribute than they actually bring to their work. How can we unleash this energy and potential and empower the teams to own and think like leaders ? How can we make everyone in the company feel and act as if they are the leader and the leadership team ? One simple mantra can help go a long way – let the doers be the deciders. Whoever actually does the work is closest to the market, the consumers and the opportunity. . So why not use this expertise and knowledge to make the right decisions. Make a default principle – the doer will be the decider. Some examples to bring these to life

So my advice to you is to have go flight mode for 1-2 hours every day- the same duration as a flight. Treat it as the time you are dedicating to getting the most important work done without any interruptions. Here are the simple steps you can follow to achieve this successfully. Block it in your calender in advance every week when the week begins. Put in flight mode and tell your boss you are doing this to get critical work done. Turn your phone to flight mode when the time comes. Turn the emails off. Keep the internet if you feel the need for it. If you are a facebook junkie, turn the internet off too. Go to a cafe or another floor in the office where no one knows you. Get to work

The search for immediate gratification leads us to prioritise the unimportant over the important, the cookies over the frog and in the end days and years pass and we regret actions not done or things not delivered. The great authors, writers, poets, leaders, sports people all eat the frog. They get up and do the one thing that matters the most, no matter how draining, challenging or consequential it may be. This makes all the difference. List your frogs. The things that matter the most. The things that will make the biggest difference. Do one everyday the moment you are awake. See how you change your own, your family’s and your team’s life. Eat the Frog. It will save your life