Barb’s QuikTip #6-Time Management
How To Find More Time for Everything
To get a complete picture of all your activities, start recording how you presently spend every hour of each day and do this for at least a month. (This will take discipline, but the effort will be worth it.) You’ll need a notebook that allows for making several entries a day. After a few days’ time, you’ll be able to devise categories for how you normally spend your time. Then, at the end of each day, summarize the hours you’ve spent in each of these categories so you can easily tally the totals for each category at month’s end.
To find the extra hours you’ll need to run a business at home you may need to curtail some of your volunteer work, change your shopping habits, or limit personal coffee klatches, phone calls or emails. If you are not an organized person, read a book or two on how to get organized, which in turn will save you lots of time you can devote to your business activities. Here are some recently published books on time management that you may want to explore:
- Successful Time Management For Dummies
- Do It Tomorrow and Other Secrets of Time Management
- Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time
“You must master your time rather than becoming a slave to the constant flow of events and demands on your time. And you must organize your life to achieve balance, harmony, and inner peace.” Brian Tracy, self-help author and speaker
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