The Mini-Day Schedule

The Mini-Day Schedule is a technique to help everyone become massively more productive. This technique was created by Mark Hamilton. For those of you who aren't familiar with this gentlemen, please allow me to provide some background. Mark Hamilton is the author of a series of books called Neo-Tech. I have personally read two of the three 1000-1200pg volumes. The Mini-day Schedule comes from the very first book. This is where Mark breaks down every single task he must accomplish to keep his company running for the next three days.

A fraction of Mark's Tasks:

Call Stuart to uncover lucrative french magazines for Ad

Write letter to Nightingale-Conant to rent profitable list

copy write revolutionary videotape production

call and negotiate KCI Masterfile for potential European profits

Call Him Tegtmire

Write Stuart C. about discount on mailing lists

Write email letter to British European mailing

make format corrections on new expanding envelope idea

fill out and send 2nd class application to post office

Meet with Keri to further organize Summit

Meet with Helen to supervise IBM process

Hold interviews for job opening 

Arrange insertion in strategic investment news letter

(This is a half page of tasks, part of two full pages just so you have an idea of how many tasks this man has)

He then arranges each task by its common physical movement, just as an assembly line would.

Phone Calls
Letter Writing
Copy Writing
Accounting
Meetings and People
Operations

The next step is to assign each of these subjects into a time slot, example: 

Phone Calls: 20%  or  2  hrs

Letter Writing: 15% or  1.5 hrs

Copy Writing:  10%  or 1 hr

Accounting:  20%  or  2 hrs

Meetings: 15%  or 1.5 hrs

Operations: 20%  or 2 hours

Now enter this new information into a real time day:

8:00-10:00  Phone calls

10:00-11:30 Letter Writing

11:30-1:30 Operations

1:30-2:30 Copy Writing

2:30-4:30 Accounting

4:30-6:30 Meetings

This now becomes an organization of physical movements assigned to time stations.

In the morning from 8-10 you will strictly focus on phone calls. You must focus for the full time you assign the slot and immediately stop when it ends. Your focus is the power behind this technique. I know all of you reading this article don't have nearly as much to do as the CEO of a company but let me show you how I integrated my life with this tool. 

 My Mini-day Schedule:

Writing:                            1 1/2 hrs

Reading:                           1 hr

Networking:                     2 hrs

Social/Meetings:              2 hr minimum

Research/Brainstorming: 1 1/12 hrs

Arts:                                 1 hr

Meditation:                      1 hr

I hope you have all enjoyed my breakdown of the Mini-day schedule. Organizing yourself with this schedule will leave you with not enough to do! You are going to find yourself finishing way before your time slots end. Keep filling your schedule up, you can accomplish much more than you originally thought. 

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Here's to your inevitable success,

Dave Trauterman