Making Use of Your Time.
Time is one thing your can never get back once it's gone it gone forever. Waste it and you can never make it up again. Use it wisely.
Here is a tip to find out where your wasting time:
For the next 24 hours write down everything you do and how much time you spent on it. This step may seem silly but it's a very, very important one. It's just for 24 hours and tomorrow at this time you'll be in for a surprise.
Here's all you have to do:
1. Get out a small pad and pen, one that is easy to carry around.
2. Write down everything.
e.g.
2:00 - 2:15 read a report
2 15 - 2:30 Spoke with Mr. Jones concerning new contract.
2:30 - 2:35 Looked for proposal
2:35 - 5:00 rewrote proposal
5:00 - 6:00 had dinner
6:00 - 7:00 watched d the news etc.
The key is to write down everything no matter how long or how silly you may think it is.
Once your list is complete you'll be able to identify what your spending a lot of your time on. You'll be able to identify a better way to spend your time.
Do you have a lot of unfinished jobs? Another time waster is having a lot unfinished things to do. This is not only stressful but it wastes time going from job to do job and getting in the mode for the job at hand.
The best way to finish a job is to start it and don't move on to another job unless you finish what your doing. With big jobs this can be done by dividing the jobs into smaller ones and complete the small job before moving on to something else. The number one Key to Good time management:
The best way to become effective and efficient is to plan a head of time. Yes it's that's simple. Just write it down ahead of time. and you'll know what needs to be done and when you should do it. You don't even waste time looking for something to do. It really works well. This is how I perfected a system that works good for me. I'll use my mornings as an example:
1. I made a list of what needs to be done every day. get products ready to be added to the site. accounting check e-mail reply to members reply to potential customers search for new products
2. I put them in priority according to importance
a. check e-mail
b. reply to members
c. reply to potential customers
d. search for new products
e. search for new products
f. accounting
3. I put a time frame in place 8:00- 8:20 check & read e-mail 8:20- 8:40 reply to members 8:40- 9:00 reply to potential customers 9:00- 9:20 search for new products 9:20- 10:00 check & read e-mail & reply (2nd check) 10:00-11:00 search for new products 11:00-11:30 accounting 11:30:12:00 Take care of unexpected
4. I try it for 1 week and make adjustments removing what doesn't work listing something's I may have missed and adjusting the time frame.
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