You might find it easier to honor your commitments by eliminating the things that waste your time and energy. Here’s how to do it.

• Time leaks are things that eat away at your commitments and increase the possibility that you will not honor them
  
• Straight-Line Leadership: Tools for Living with Velocity and Power in Turbulent Times by Dusan Djukich
  
  • “What you have committed to, up to now, is revealed by what you have produced or failed to produce”
    
  • “Involved with” vs. “committed to”
    
  
  
• What gets in the way of honoring your commitments?
  
• What do you do or where do you go when you have 15 or 20 minutes between meetings?
  
• Reducing time leaks adds time back to your day
  
• Having large blocks of time without clear intentions or guard rails
  
• Committing to do certain things in a given day
  
• What things are you doing that aren’t giving you anything back?
  
• Managing Slack by turning off the presence indicator and closing it for an hour as an experiment
  
• Decide what you will say “No” to in a given week to help you plug a time leak–make them small and doable
  
• Unsubscribe from all those newsletters
  
• Disable the notifications on your phone or simply power it off
  
• Where do you go when you are bored or seeking to soothe yourself?
  
• Where do you find yourself without knowing how you got there?
  
• What’s the biggest mindless activity that you do in a day that consumes the most time?
  

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