Operations and processes · Short · 13 June 2026
The key to managing your time and being more productive
Don’t confuse movement with progress. Being busy isn’t moving forward: you have to tell the urgent from the important and give the important the time it needs.
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Your actions for this week
- Sort tomorrow’s tasks into urgent and important.
- Block out 90 minutes in your diary just for what’s important.
- At the end of the week, check how much time you spent on each type of task.
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