{"id":36633,"date":"2014-10-23T13:00:12","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T17:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=36633"},"modified":"2014-10-23T13:00:12","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T17:00:12","slug":"getting-unstuck-how-to-take-control-of-your-schedule-and-stop-hijacking-your-own-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2014\/10\/23\/getting-unstuck-how-to-take-control-of-your-schedule-and-stop-hijacking-your-own-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Unstuck: How to Take Control of Your Schedule and Stop Hijacking Your Own Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jonathan Bissell (<\/em><\/strong>Chiba<\/em><\/strong><\/a>-ken, 1995-2000)<\/strong>\u00a0is the author of\u00a0Dream in Color, Think in Black\u00a0& White: How to Get Unstuck and Fulfill Your Dreams<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0and CEO of High Performance Impact, LLC, an executive coaching firm helping proven and emerging leaders to\u00a0identify and consistently leverage patterns of high performance. He blogs at www.jonathanbissell.com<\/span><\/a><\/span>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Staying in control of your schedule isn’t easy – especially when you’re stressed out,\u00a0pressed for time,\u00a0or\u00a0dealing with multiple deadlines and the demands of others.<\/p>\n

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But let’s face it: Sometimes\u00a0the saboteur is you.<\/p>\n

If you’ve ever created a great agenda for your day but\u00a0found yourself doing something completely unrelated when you actually sat down to work, then you know\u00a0exactly what I mean.<\/p>\n

Having your\u00a0agenda hijacked by someone else is bad enough, but when you’re the main culprit, the loss of control is even more demoralizing. But rather than play\u00a0the blame game (haven’t you had enough of that?), let’s\u00a0focus on solutions to the problem.<\/p>\n

Here are 3 quick tips\u00a0you can immediately put into practice to regain control of your schedule\u00a0and stop hijacking\u00a0your own agenda.<\/p>\n

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  1. Schedule Your Shadow Priorities.<\/strong> Shadow priorities are the things that you actually<\/em>\u00a0do even when you plan<\/em> to do something else. These priorities are not listed on your agenda,\u00a0but they exert a powerful\u00a0influence on how you spend your time. So give them the attention they seek\u00a0by including them on your agenda, but\u00a0set clear\u00a0boundaries around how much time you allot to them.\u00a0For example, if your plan is to rethink your strategic objectives but you find yourself checking\u00a0email instead, then\u00a0incorporate email as a priority on your agenda and schedule specific time blocks to attend to it. You’ll find that scheduling your shadow priorities gives them the attention they crave\u00a0– and\u00a0the boundaries they lack.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Jonathan Bissell (Chiba-ken, 1995-2000)\u00a0is the author of\u00a0Dream in Color, Think in Black\u00a0& White: How to Get Unstuck and Fulfill Your Dreams\u00a0and CEO of High Performance Impact, LLC, an executive coaching firm helping proven and emerging leaders to\u00a0identify and consistently leverage patterns of high performance. He blogs at www.jonathanbissell.com.\u00a0 Staying in control of your schedule isn’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[73,1,6],"tags":[1317,1319,1308,1318,1320,1316],"class_list":["post-36633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advice","category-uncategorized","category-writers","tag-agenda","tag-email","tag-getting-unstuck","tag-priorities","tag-schedule","tag-taking-control-of-your-schedule"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-9wR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36634,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36633\/revisions\/36634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}