D – Decide on the vision for your time
What do you want your day, week or life to look life? What do you want to include? More importantly, what don’t you want it to include?
R – Remove everything (for now)
When you remove everything non-essential from your schedule, you can see exactly what time you have to spend on the things that most matter to you.
E – Eliminate the non-important and non-urgent
Remember the important/ urgent matrix? Eliminate the non-important and non-urgent. You’ll find your time freed up to spend on important things.
A – Arrange your schedule in a way that works for you
We are all different and we therefore have different preferences and energy styles. If you’re a lark, go to gym in the morning or get up and do your reading then. If you’re a night owl, sleep in and do everything possible at night.
M – Maintain your priorities
- Do a form of weekly planning on a fixed day every week and write down three priorities for work, personal and home (or whichever categories you prefer).
- Use an Eat the Frog list daily to keep on track.
- One in, one out – if you add a new commitment to your life, you probably need to remove one if you didn’t already have blocks of available time.
- Review your monthly calendar periodically to make sure your priorities are well-represented.
That’s it – that’s how you use your DREAM method to organise your time.
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