|
|
Like this article? PLEASE +1 it! |
|
5 Easy Steps For Generating Time
|
| Guest post by: Germaine Porche |
Article Overview: How much time can you save by changing your everyday routine? Be inspired in 5 easy steps.
![]() |
Free Download - Your Environment: By Design or Accident? By Germaine Porche |
5 Easy Steps For Generating Time
After hearing complaints about how slow he was in getting dressed in the morning to go to work, Jed decided to examine his routine. He learned that it took at least an hour for him to shave, shower, and get dressed. If he could invest just 15 minutes less every morning, he would generate more than 90 hours a year to invest elsewhere. That represents nearly two workweeks for most of us!
Jed conceived of the idea to turn his morning routine into an athletic event. He bought a stopwatch and began shaving off minutes and seconds every day until he reduced his getting dressed down to 22 minutes flat. That amounts to 38 minutes that he generates every day. That's 231.16 high-value hours per year, or the equivalent of almost six workweeks. Or he can invest the time in vacations, tennis, golf, or anything he chooses. How much time can you generate from routine actions?
1. Make a list of your routine, everyday time traditions. Include such things as sleep, dressing, breakfast, lunch, dinner, meetings, conference calls-whatever tasks you tend to do on a daily basis.
2. Next to each item, list how much time it takes you to complete each task.
3. Challenge the numbers. How much time can you commit to shave off each time tradition?
4. Multiply each of the shavings by the approximate number of days you engage in this activity in a year's time. (For example, 20 minutes x 52 weeks = 1,040 minutes or 17.3 hours)
5. Calculate the total time you could possibly generate in one year to invest elsewhere.
Pick yourself up off the floor and go for it!
Article Tags: everyday routine, save time, time
|
About the Author: Germaine Porche RSS for Germaine's articles - Visit Germaine's website Germaine Porche is an expert in coaching leaders. She is President and co-founder of Eagle's View Consulting, an international coaching and management consultancy. Fortune 500 companies invite Germaine to speak and train their management teams while professional coaches come to her for coaching and to perfect their skills. Germaine is co-author, with her partner Jed Niederer, of the bestselling coach's guidebook: Coach Anyone About Anything: How to Help People Succeed in Business and Life, listed among Amazon.com's Top 100 Business Books; the CD series, Ask The Coaches; and the new bestselling humor series, COACHING SOUP for the CARTOON SOUL. She recently released a completely new book, Coach Anyone About Anything: How to Empower Leaders and High-Performance Teams. Germaine holds a B.A. in Management from Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio, Texas and an M.S. degree in Organization Development from American University and the NTL Institute (National Training Laboratories). She is a certified practitioner and facilitator of several behavioral styles profile and psychometric instruments. Germaine is a Life Member of CoachLab International - Society of Professional Coaches and serves on the Advisory Board. Click here to visit Germaine's website Feedforward or Feedback Communication for Moving People to Action What has Unrealizable Fantasies Got to Do with Being Organized Your Environment By Design or Accident TO DO OR NOT TO DO 3 KEY QUESTIONS 5 Easy Steps For Generating Time |
Related Forum Posts
Share this article with your friends. Fund someone's dream.
Leave a comment below or share on the left and you'll help support entrepreneurs in Africa through our partnership with Kiva. Over $50,000 raised and counting - Please keep sharing! Learn more.
Get advice & tips from famous business
owners, new articles by entrepreneur
experts, my latest website updates, &
special sneak peaks at what's to come!
Secrets of Successful Business Partnering
Multilevel Marketing: 4 Tips To MLM Success
Stay Employed In A Down Economy
Email us your ideas on how to make our
website more valuable! Thank you Sharon
from Toronto Salsa Lessons / Classes for
your suggestions to make the newsletter
look like the website and profile younger
entrepreneurs like Jennifer Lopez.



