those woos window of opportunity and you are more likely to see amazing positive improvements in how much and what you are accomplishing what woo experiences are you opening yourself up to whether its through email and social media sites like linkedin or twitter or through facetoface meetings at conferences or introductions that you facilitate through those you work with or for or even your friends and family are you promptly and appropriately following them up5 ask what do others prefer if someone lets you know that they hate phone calls respect that if email is their preference follow that lead although of course if you continually use the same method of communicating and it does not get a response try another way explaining why youre doing it6 get things otd you know youre making progress if youre getting projects otd out the door otd means that something is actually getting finished and on its way to happening if youre in marketing that means you are actually making the marketing calls and not just writing up a list of whom you should be callingyoure not just spinning your wheels or making promises that something is in development but without seeing results7 look beyond too many of us get stuck in the rut of looking to our own fields for examples whether thats publishing companies for writers and authors advertising companies for those in advertising instead stretch yourself and see where it takes you if youre a sociologist consider partnering with a neurologist and see where that might lead you both you could also look at other cultures for insights into different ways of doing things whether its someone within your own country or someone from thousands of miles away8 do it now if you have a great idea do something about it immediately because the longer you dwell on it and fail to act on it the greater the chances it will get out there in the universe and someone else will do it before you the same is true for those projects you know you have to do for your boss or for yourself that website that needs to be redesigned or even getting a website up in the first place that blog you need to commit to writing every day reproduced from put more time on your side by jan yager published by harpercollins rs 250 do itnow stands for d divide and conquer what you have to do break big tasks into little tasks and give each part of that task a realistic deadline o organise your materials how you will do it i ignore interruptions that are annoying distractions t take the time to learn how to do things yourself n now not tomorrow o opportunity is knocking take advantage of opportunities w watch out for time gobblers keep track of and in control of how much time you spend on the internet reading and sending emails watching tv