How to Manage Interruptions

We’ve all experienced this scenario: You have carefully planned out your day, knowing exactly what you need to get done and how long it should take you, then BAM! You get a phone call.  The deal you are closing next week is falling through!  You spend the next hour on the phone putting the deal back together.  Crisis averted.  Then you stay up an hour later that night to finish the things you had scheduled on your to-do list…

Why not schedule “miscellaneous” time into your day to cover these situations?  That way if you get that “emergency” phone call that has to take priority you can go with the flow, handle the situation, and be stress free!  The worst thing that could happen is that you don’t have an emergency come up.  If that happens, you can use the opportunity to work on some of the lower priority items on your list that you wouldn’t have normally been able to get to.