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Maximizing Your Time to Maximize Success

Guest post by: Susan Brown

Article Overview: Your most valuable and free resource is your time. How you spend it determines the quality of your life, your amount of energy and your levels of internal and external success. Start by taking action right now to maximize your time and surprisingly enough, it starts with your attitude towards time.

Maximizing Your Time to Maximize Success

You CAN maximize your time if you are not only willing to making changes in HOW you spend your time but in the way you THINK about your time.

If you cannot change your "story" that there is not enough time to get it all done, you will continue to experience a scarcity of time and the resulting feelings of overwhelm that go with your story of "I have too much to do and not enough time." Ready to get control over your time?

Begin by visualizing your normal work day in vivid detail. Feel the stress, tension and frustration.

Now imagine yourself three months from now where you move easily throughout your day achieving all that you set out to accomplish. Get connected to what your body, mind and spirit feels like as you complete your tasks with ease, purpose and pride.

It's essential you feel that new way of being and doing to establish the belief and commitment that you can maximize your time.

Below is a menu of vital time maximization strategies. Choose and execute those that are best for you for at least 21 days to establish your new patterns and to reap the benefits of wisely using your time.

Strategy 1: Establish a value to your time.

Adopt an attorney's approach where clients are billed in SIX minute increments of time. Your time is money. How much are you worth? Adjust the value of your time if it is too low. Just imagine that you are prolonging suffering, wasting dollars, slowing down success, etc. for every six minutes you waste.

Strategy 2: Put your mental baggage away while working on all tasks.

Toxic thoughts like anger, worry, anxiety, and unworthiness SLOW you down. They take you out of the present where you are at your best. They compromise the way you think and feel and the way you relate to others. As a result of impaired relationships, you may find yourself doing damage control - a big time waster.

Strategy 3: Break a huge, overwhelming project or priority into small tasks.

Record that information in a format that can be revised as needed and shows completion of tasks to document progress. Delegate those tasks that are not yours to complete.

Strategy 4: Identify and minimize your time wasters.

Time wasters are either caused by yourself or your organization. They include: unannounced visitors, telephone calls, waiting for others, nonessential or too long meetings, commutes, disorganization of information, inability to say "no," burnout, and procrastination. Raise your awareness by keeping a log for a week or more. Take that information and make adjustments.

Strategy 5: Complete your priority tasks in the most productive part of your day.

Do what is most valuable, will have the greatest impact, requires the highest level of thinking, focus or creativity at the time of day when you know you are at your best.

BONUS TIP: Block out ALL interruptions and make it known that completion of this task is vital to the organization's success. People respect that.

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