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Deal with emergencies

Deal with emergencies

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Deal with emergencies

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- All of these time management principles may be useful but what about those moments where things don't go according to plan? That's just life, right? It especially happens at the intersection between work and your personal life. Perhaps you're working on a major project at work and then suddenly something happens at home like an illness. What do you do in those situations? First you want to be prepared. I call this the hold water story. We were once notified by the city that they were going to shut off all the water for a day or two. They recommended that we fill up pitchers with water. Well, you can do the same thing with your schedule, you can fill up your calendar with extra time and in that way your schedule holds water. The most important thing to do is to create buffer in your schedule. This means rather than having appointments back to back to back, you create 10 minutes here and 30 minutes there so that there's…

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