Scheduling your priorities into your planner helps. Discipline to focus and stay on task helps. However, I think getting a handle on what you're really doing with your time may be the best starting point. Kind of like keeping a food diary to study your eating habits. This would be a time diary to track what's eating your time.
Yes, I'm suggesting that you write down everything that you do and how long it takes you to do it. Keep your diary for a week. Don't judge anything at this point. You're trying to capture everything that you normally do so you can analyze it honestly later.
At the end of the week, take a look at what you've been doing and then start to categorize your activities. Some activities will immediately reveal themselves as being big timewasters. My suggestion is that you create a few categories for these....
Delete - any activity that doesn't contribute to the big picture. Stop doing it!
Deminish - streamline your routines (ex: check emails twice daily not as they arrive).
Delegate - does it have to be done by you or does it simply have to be done?
Delay - can it wait until later (stop giving your attention to stuff that can wait).
Hint: revenue generating activity is the most important task of any business!
Happy Streamlining!
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