Welcome to Manager Tools. Today's topic, calendar management details. Chapter 2,

Priorities in the Morning. Here we go. Well today we're going to give folks some guidance

on proactively scheduling time for your key responsibilities in the morning

versus the afternoon or early evening when quote-unquote

everybody's gone right?

Yeah that's the whole everybody's gone thing right I I'll do it. I got one thing to get done today I intend to get it done

I'm gonna go in I'm gonna get it done and then you get in the mailstrom of day-to-day life at the office

And you don't get it done and then you keep putting

it off and go no no I can't you know two o'clock four o'clock and then you say no I'm fine

I'll get it done at the end of the day and then as we've shared with many people

before we have videotape of managers at their desk between four and five and six and seven in the evening and nothing gets done if any value then it's like zombie land and it's just not it's just not effective yeah even though everybody's gone and you

make it interrupted less the fact is your brain dead and it doesn't make any sense

yeah and you know like most of us I include myself in there sometimes.

We're terrible at managing time.

Well yeah part of the reason you're terrible at managing time and I am too is because time doesn't

need us to manage it and time doesn't respond well to manage.

It tends to keep right on going whether we manage to stuffing out of it or not.

Yeah, I tell it to slow down, it doesn't.

These days I tell it to slow down.

I used to when I was younger, say, wanted it speed up, but it didn't do either.

Right, exactly, yeah. And what that means is we think about managing time and we forget that what we should be doing is managing our priorities.

And as we mentioned, for many of us as managers,

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