The TimeSavvy Tool Kit consists of easy-to-use and immediately applicable tools designed to help you jumpstart your productivity and find greater balance in your life.
♦ The 40-item TimeSavvy Self-Assessment to help you pinpoint where to start improving your time management practices.
♦ A checklist to identify your top five Roadblocks to Productivity from among the 25 most common time wasters
♦ An exercise to guide you in assessing where you should bring greater balance into your life
♦ A list of the Top 12 Keyboard Shortcuts for Attorneys formatted to be taped on the side of your monitor
♦ A Daily Planning checklist for strengthening the planning process
You’ll also recieve a 15 minute video on the Planning process, as well as a video summary of Toolkit items.
Each weekly Brief provides a simple and proven strategy to help you get better at managing your time. And the Brief is just that – brief. You can read each tip in less than two minutes and put it to use right away.
You’ll get useful guidance on topics from accurately estimating time for tasks, managing your calendar for maximum productivity, and establishing appropriate boundaries.
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Do You Know How to Say No?
One of our most self-defeating behaviors is the tendency to say Yes, when we really want to – and ought to – say No.
In his book, The Power of a Positive No: Save the Deal, Save the Relationship, and Still Say No, William Ury, Co-founder of Harvard’s Program on Negotiation and coauthor of Getting to Yes, suggests that we confuse the issue of whether to say No with how to say No. As he puts it, “Since the how seems impossible, the whether seems predetermined.”
Do any of these situations ring a bell?
♦ You take on a task for a colleague on his timeline that disrupts your own work
♦ You accept a new matter despite numerous red flags
♦ You agree to settlement terms when your gut tells you not to
♦ You accede to someone’s request despite it violating your conscience (at however subtle a level)
Do any of these reasons for not saying No sound familiar?
♦ You feel intimidated by someone else’s authority
♦ You feel sorry for someone else’s circumstances
♦ You don’t want to offend someone
♦ You’re seeking to justify your procrastination on something else
And how do you wind up feeling when you say Yes, but want to say No?
♦ Angry?
♦ Guilty?
♦ Resentful?
♦ Disrespected?
Despite some short-lived avoidance of discomfort, little long-term good comes from this self-defeating behavior.
So what is the power of a positive No? Ultimately, it’s heightened effectiveness in your professional and personal relationships. And it’s the key to being in, and acting from, integrity.
Ury’s book is as wise and compassionate as it is practical and instructive. It teaches us, concretely, how to respond with a Positive No. And in so doing, it teaches us how to be happier within ourselves and how to be a strong, positive role model for those around us.
You can check it out, along with other recommended titles, at the TimeSavvy reading list.
