A NOT to-do list

Having just finished the Tim Ferris book, “The Four Hour Work Week” I came across a very good NOT to-do list from the author on his site.

The first 4:

1. Do not answer unrecognized phone calls
2. Do not e-mail first thing in the morning or last thing at night
3. Do not agree to meetings or calls with no clear agenda or end time
4. Do not let people ramble—forget “how’s it going?” and embrace “what’s up?”

If you have a phone system (I have a FreePBX system) I often put in information about callers after they leave messages into my system, so that in the future they will be ‘recognized’ rather than unrecognized. More often than not, it is a call that I DO want to avoid!

Visit WebWorkerDaily to see the full list of 9 not to-do items.

P.S. The book is an excellent read! It’s a no nonsense approach, but requries discipline to pull it off! I’d recommend it completely.