Understanding Proactive vs. Reactive Time Management

you ever have those days where you just can't seem to get jacked on you I everybody we experience those days and then we have the other exact opposite end of the spectrum where we have amazing days we look at the end of the day and we're like that was phenomenal how did we accomplish so much we're going to talk about the difference right now and how you can decipher between the two and optimize your time so check this out you I and everyone we know can break their day into two basic components one is the highly productive proactive portion of the day which we unfortunately don't spend enough time in and the other one is what I like to call the regurgitative waste of time that preoccupies most of our waking hours and that's the reactive portion of our day we're going to talk about these two different portions of the day and how we can switch from being reactive being proactive really is taking hold of The reigns of your life of your company and leading it very specifically in a way that benefits you the most reactive is everything else that falls in place to operate your company but doesn't necessarily need to be a priority let's talk about some of these reactive things that totally take up all of our time how about answering unsolicited emails do you do that you're guilty of that I'm guilty of that worst worst reactive thing text messages how many times have you gotten a text message that is nothing more than a distraction away from what you really should be doing something that you really should be accomplishing another reactive thing will be taking phone calls from people you don't know why would you do that why would you waste your time answering somebody else's questions what you're doing at that point is you are being reactive and helping somebody else be proactive unless you very specifically wanted to talk and reach out to that person you should never wait waste your time answering a phone call that you don't know what's on the other end or why they're calling don't fall into those traps can you start to see how we spend a lot of our time in a reactive State a lot of our time helping other people be proactive when really what we need to do is refocus commit to helping yourself become the absolute best you can do have people answer your questions put people into reactive States you'll bump your company up and as your grow growing you can then bring them along for the ride so don't feel like you're using someone when you're putting them in a reactive…