You can become a top performer by improving your time behaviors. Wouldn't it feel good to effectively handle your paperwork as it comes in? A good system is a first step.

Pick one set of paperwork that really feels out of control now. If you have a backlog of that paperwork set aside a time block when you can quickly go through it doing a fast sort. Sort the paperwork into piles for needs immediate attention, needs attention within the next 2 weeks, and
can be dealt with when I get to it.

This may be a hard thing for you as your first reaction is that everything needs immediate attention yet you also know that if it doesn't involve a life and death situation there is a time allowance. Plus if it truly were that urgent it wouldn't be in the pile in the first place.

Block out a time period each day to work through this immediate pile keeping up with any new immediate attention items that continue to be added.

Sort all new paperwork into one of these piles immediately when as it arrives.


Identify who/how someone else might help you with the needs attention within the next 2 weeks pile. Even though you may not be able to hire someone to do this work at the moment there are a lot of free and part-time options available.

As you continue working through your paperwork start noting what things are repetitious, what things require a very low level of skills, what things that aren't required to be handled by a licensed agent/advisor, etc. When you start to see a pattern and have a better idea of the time required to
complete these tasks you are prepared to start searching your options for outside help to delegate this busy work to.

There may be things your family could help you with, their may be things a high school student could help you with as an intern, their may be things a retired person would love to do just to
keep busy and feel important. Explore your options and delagate, delegate, delegate so you can spend your time on the things that put money in the bank.

Oh, by the way, when you get caught up with the needs immediate attention pile and have some one working on the needs attention within 2 weeks pile go back and sort through that when I have
time pile. This time sort with the intention of either putting it into one of the needs attention files, storing it for future reference in an appropriate file or throwing it out.

By
Cheryl A. Clausen
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