Back to back meetings limitations

[Borisoff]

I have my week booked in advance. Today is Wednesday and I have no free slots till next Tuesday. Actually I have something like a free slot that is one hour processing time blocked daily. My next actions are mainly meetings. Of course I have @Computer actions but I either do them at the blocked processing time if time left, or book them in my calendar if that's very important. Then just imagine me calling somebody to agree a meeting for the next week. In this hectic non-GTD world they sometimes forget about that when this week passed What do you think is a better approach in this situation:

1. Call them to make a meeting for the next week anyway (do NAs);

2. Do not make any meetings later then the day after today (skip NAs);

3. Any other ideas?

BTW the second approach means that if I don't do any meetings myself they would be made anyway by other people like partners, customers ect... Please advice!

 

[kewms]

Schedule the meeting as usual. Call them a few days before to confirm.

Katherine

 

[TesTeq]

Charge more.

3. Any other ideas?

Charge more for meetings with you. You'll reduce the number of meetings without reducing the income.

 

[abhay]

See if this helps:

http://www.davidco.com/blogs/michael/2009/02/take_control_of_your_calendar.html

Regards,
Abhay

 

[Brent]

You could schedule more and longer appointments for working at your computer. I agree with TesTeq about charging more for meeting time, as well.

 

[Borisoff]

thank you all for your ideas!

 

[clango]

Any other ideas?

• Ask yourself why I need to meet?
• Delegate?
• Give a value to each meeting referring to your goals? I mean to choose what's more convenient for you
• Monthly forecast? This month could happen...so...
• Anticipate or cancel depending on a certain list of criteria?
• Hire someone?