Time Management Tips that really work!
Time Management Tips that really work!
As you look through the list, think of ways that you could be more efficient with what you do.
Analyze what it is that you could stop doing or give up.
The following Time Management Tips may help!
Could you start taking the train or bus to work? Freeing yourself some time for catching up on work-related reading, computer work or just unwinding with that book you never have time to finish.
If you must drive to work could you program the people you need to call into your phone and call them on route (with a headset or hands free)?
You can download audio books onto your MP3 or burn them on CD’s. You can also get audio books at the library or bookstore. There are all kinds of them, from learning a new language to listening to an inspirational or motivational story!
If you have a secretary or assistant you can ask them to update you or share ideas with you on a recording device so that you can listen to them while driving and make voice memos back to them. You can also use the quiet time in the car to record your own ideas and strategies. This method has saved me a lot of time. I trained my assistant to only interrupt me with information that couldn't wait. The rest of the information she would summarize on tape for me and I would listen to it on the way home. While listening I would record my feedback for her on another recording device and in the morning she would listen to it and have the information she needed for that day!
In my business it is important to constantly read and learn new things so I always try and bring a book or something I can learn from with me when I am waiting in line at the bank or the doctors office etc…
For your next computer get a dual-core processor so you don’t have to wait while you are doing a virus scan or downloading something. You can multi-task. I find this feature very helpful.
With the invention of Voicemail very few people actually answer their business phones anymore therefore making it very difficult to connect with someone. So most of us tend to play a lot of telephone tag. It is a waste of time and can get frustrating for both parties. Instead, set up a specific time that the two of you can speak. Although, it may not work out in every instance, it has saved me an enormous amount of time.
When you are talking on the phone whether it is personal or business are you using a hands free headset? This way you can do other things at the same time. Like input information into your computer that the client is sharing with you. Or at home you can talk to a friend while making dinner or cleaning up.
Almost every business professional I deal with complains about the amount of emails they receive on a daily basis. Make sure you put a Spam filter on your email. You can also get a Spam feature that sends an automatic reply to emails sent from people who are not in your contact list. They are asked politely to fill out some more information and if it isn’t that important most people will not reply.
Secondly, if you find that you are replying to multiple emails with the same type of information, create a standard reply that you can customize if needed.
Thirdly, educate people who send you emails, what is important to you and what you don't need to be copied on.
Fourthly, do your best to prioritize them.
Making mistakes can take up a lot of unnecessary time. When it is important to proofread a document or take instructions, stop what you are doing, clear your head and focus specifically on that task.
Many people say they don’t have the opportunity to exercise. If you play golf, make sure you walk the course! Walk to work if possible. Ride your bike to work if possible. Always take the stairs. Incorporate your exercise into your family routine, do sports together, take classes together. Push the stroller with roller blades on, walk the dog at a quick pace!
Put less into your day. Learn to say NO!
If you are a parent and you find that you are racing with your children from one class to the next; stop and analyze whether it is really necessary for your children to be enrolled in so many things. Children need downtime and time for creative and unstructured play.
Do you watch too much television? If so turn it off and you will have lots more time to do what you want.
Can you afford a Cleaning person?
Can you get a live-in Nanny who takes care of your house, does all the cooking and is there to baby sit your children or take care of elderly parents? It is far less expensive than you would think. It can actually cost more not to have one when you consider the price of daycare, driving to daycare, hiring babysitters and cleaning persons. Also, there is the cost to consider of your personal well-being. When you are haggard and run down it will eventually catch up with you and create more of a burden, so be proactive!
Can you afford to hire a gardener or a student to cut your lawn?
Learn how to unbutton your pants on the way to the bathroom?
Read magazines or work-related information while at a red light?
Learn how to dial the phone or text without looking so you can talk to your friends or colleagues at the same time?
Okay so the last three are a joke! But the sad truth is that I used to do these things and more! If you don’t see the problem with this then you have a problem!
If you take efficiency to the extreme like I did then you can become rigid and irritable when things don’t go as planned. Things won’t always work out to fit into your nicely laid out schedule. Just as you are running out the door, your child will get sick or you spill your coffee on your clothes and have to change. Then you find that your car has a flat and so on.
You don’t want to lose your spontaneity and light-heartedness and allow these or any other Time Management Tips to become your ruler.
Don’t try to fill every last minute with something that you deem is useful.
Make sure you put aside at least a half a day per week where you don’t have anything scheduled. You don’t wear a watch; you don’t look at a clock and maybe you just stay in your pajamas. Also, make sure that there are pockets of time in your day, everyday, where you can sit quietly and just relax with no distractions.
Now for the most important of all Time Management Tips!
All of these ideas are beneficial but if you really want to maximize the advantages of these Time Management Tips, you need to change your definition of Time Management. To change this you need to shift from being time-centric to being timeless. When you achieve this time is no longer something you never have enough of or something that you need to manage!
Our Life and Business Coaching Programs can teach you how to make this transition. Please Contact Us for more details.
Time Management Tips that really work - To learn more about this author, visit Karen Parsons's Website.
Like this article? Share it with your friends
Please make a list of what it is that you do each day. Write down everything. When you get up in the morning, what do you do? When you get ready for work, what does that consist of? What do you do all day? What does your bedtime regime consist of?
As you look through the list, think of ways that you could be more efficient with what you do.
Analyze what it is that you could stop doing or give up.
The following Time Management Tips may help!
Could you start taking the train or bus to work? Freeing yourself some time for catching up on work-related reading, computer work or just unwinding with that book you never have time to finish.
If you must drive to work could you program the people you need to call into your phone and call them on route (with a headset or hands free)?
You can download audio books onto your MP3 or burn them on CD’s. You can also get audio books at the library or bookstore. There are all kinds of them, from learning a new language to listening to an inspirational or motivational story!
If you have a secretary or assistant you can ask them to update you or share ideas with you on a recording device so that you can listen to them while driving and make voice memos back to them. You can also use the quiet time in the car to record your own ideas and strategies. This method has saved me a lot of time. I trained my assistant to only interrupt me with information that couldn't wait. The rest of the information she would summarize on tape for me and I would listen to it on the way home. While listening I would record my feedback for her on another recording device and in the morning she would listen to it and have the information she needed for that day!
In my business it is important to constantly read and learn new things so I always try and bring a book or something I can learn from with me when I am waiting in line at the bank or the doctors office etc…
For your next computer get a dual-core processor so you don’t have to wait while you are doing a virus scan or downloading something. You can multi-task. I find this feature very helpful.
With the invention of Voicemail very few people actually answer their business phones anymore therefore making it very difficult to connect with someone. So most of us tend to play a lot of telephone tag. It is a waste of time and can get frustrating for both parties. Instead, set up a specific time that the two of you can speak. Although, it may not work out in every instance, it has saved me an enormous amount of time.
When you are talking on the phone whether it is personal or business are you using a hands free headset? This way you can do other things at the same time. Like input information into your computer that the client is sharing with you. Or at home you can talk to a friend while making dinner or cleaning up.
Almost every business professional I deal with complains about the amount of emails they receive on a daily basis. Make sure you put a Spam filter on your email. You can also get a Spam feature that sends an automatic reply to emails sent from people who are not in your contact list. They are asked politely to fill out some more information and if it isn’t that important most people will not reply.
Secondly, if you find that you are replying to multiple emails with the same type of information, create a standard reply that you can customize if needed.
Thirdly, educate people who send you emails, what is important to you and what you don't need to be copied on.
Fourthly, do your best to prioritize them.
Making mistakes can take up a lot of unnecessary time. When it is important to proofread a document or take instructions, stop what you are doing, clear your head and focus specifically on that task.
Many people say they don’t have the opportunity to exercise. If you play golf, make sure you walk the course! Walk to work if possible. Ride your bike to work if possible. Always take the stairs. Incorporate your exercise into your family routine, do sports together, take classes together. Push the stroller with roller blades on, walk the dog at a quick pace!
Put less into your day. Learn to say NO!
If you are a parent and you find that you are racing with your children from one class to the next; stop and analyze whether it is really necessary for your children to be enrolled in so many things. Children need downtime and time for creative and unstructured play.
Do you watch too much television? If so turn it off and you will have lots more time to do what you want.
Can you afford a Cleaning person?
Can you get a live-in Nanny who takes care of your house, does all the cooking and is there to baby sit your children or take care of elderly parents? It is far less expensive than you would think. It can actually cost more not to have one when you consider the price of daycare, driving to daycare, hiring babysitters and cleaning persons. Also, there is the cost to consider of your personal well-being. When you are haggard and run down it will eventually catch up with you and create more of a burden, so be proactive!
Can you afford to hire a gardener or a student to cut your lawn?
Learn how to unbutton your pants on the way to the bathroom?
Read magazines or work-related information while at a red light?
Learn how to dial the phone or text without looking so you can talk to your friends or colleagues at the same time?
Okay so the last three are a joke! But the sad truth is that I used to do these things and more! If you don’t see the problem with this then you have a problem!
If you take efficiency to the extreme like I did then you can become rigid and irritable when things don’t go as planned. Things won’t always work out to fit into your nicely laid out schedule. Just as you are running out the door, your child will get sick or you spill your coffee on your clothes and have to change. Then you find that your car has a flat and so on.
You don’t want to lose your spontaneity and light-heartedness and allow these or any other Time Management Tips to become your ruler.
Don’t try to fill every last minute with something that you deem is useful.
Make sure you put aside at least a half a day per week where you don’t have anything scheduled. You don’t wear a watch; you don’t look at a clock and maybe you just stay in your pajamas. Also, make sure that there are pockets of time in your day, everyday, where you can sit quietly and just relax with no distractions.
Now for the most important of all Time Management Tips!
All of these ideas are beneficial but if you really want to maximize the advantages of these Time Management Tips, you need to change your definition of Time Management. To change this you need to shift from being time-centric to being timeless. When you achieve this time is no longer something you never have enough of or something that you need to manage!
Our Life and Business Coaching Programs can teach you how to make this transition. Please Contact Us for more details.
Time Management Tips that really work - To learn more about this author, visit Karen Parsons's Website.
Like this article? Share it with your friends
 | |
 |
No article feedback found. |
| |
Leave Your Feedback |
 | |
| |||
David AchesonDavid Acheson is the founder of DCJA Consultancy. DCJA Consultancy is a management consultancy business specialising in B2B sales consultancy. They offer bespoke and packaged sales consultancy including Sales Optimisation Review, Interim Sales Management, Sales & Marketing Review, 1:1 Sales & Management Staff Analysis, Management Training, Solution Sales Training, Creation of New Pay Plan, KPI's, run Customer Feedback Campaigns, assist with Recruitment, Coaching, Appraisals and set up Strategic Marketing Campaigns. David spent his early career in accountancy and then moved into sales in 1982, working in Office Equipment, IT, Advertising, Training, Outsourcing and Consultancy. He has held many Senior Positions in SMBs and Global Organisations including Head of Sales Operations & Head of Business Development. His knowledge, skills and great experience of the Sales Industry has led to David making keynote speeches and running educational sessions to key businesses through organisations including The Chamber of Commerce and Business Link. - Visit David Acheson's Website |
|||
Dave KurlanDave Kurlan is the founder and CEO of Objective Management Group, Inc., the industry leader in sales assessments and sales force evaluations, and the CEO of David Kurlan & Associates, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in sales force development. Dave has been a top rated speaker at Inc. Magazine's Conference on Growing the Company, the Sales & Marketing Management Conference and the Gazelles Sales & Marketing Summit. He has been featured on radio and TV, including World Business Review with General Norman Schwarzkopf, in Inc. Magazine, Selling Power Magazine, Sales & Marketing Management Magazine and Incentive Magazine. He is the author of Mindless Selling and Baseline Selling – How to Become a Sales Superstar by Using What You Already Know about the Game of Baseball. He created and wrote STAR, a proprietary recruiting process for hiring great salespeople, and he writes Understanding the Sales Force, a popular business Blog and is a contributing author to The Death of 20th Century Selling and 101 Great Ways to Improve Your Life, Volume 2. - Visit Dave Kurlan's Website |
|||
John PowerJohn Power, founder of Biltmore Franchise Consulting, has extensive experience developing and marketing franchises and business opportunities. He has been in and around franchising for over twenty years. From 1980 through 1990 he conceptualized, organized, and developed the American Video Association. He grew AVA to 2,000 national members, before selling the company it 1990. It was later merged into another home video marketing company. From 2000 to 2005 he worked as a contract marketing and human resources consultant to several local and national companies. In 2005 Mr. Power began working as a franchise development consultant on a full-time basis. Since that time he has helped more than three dozen companies initiate and develop their franchising program. He notes that there are many companies interested in developing a franchise program, and who need his specialized assistance. Mr. Power is a “hands-on” franchise consultant. He said, “I am the ‘nuts and bolts’ person who tends to the details for my clients.” Mr. Power holds a B.S. degree with a major in Marketing. See: www.biltmorefranchise.com You may contact Mr. Power at: jpower@biltmorefranchise.co - Visit John Power's Website |
|||
Stephanie RobeyStephanie Robey is President and CoFounder of Pivot Positive, LLC - an Internet marketing business focused on helping people start work at home ventures. Previously, she was employed at The Search Agency with over 20 years experience in graphic design and 10 years experience in online marketing. She was responsible for launching the Conversion Path Optimization (CPO) unit where she and her team have conducted hundreds of optimization tests for online companies across multiple verticals. She is a successful entrepreneur having started and sold 2 companies and remains on the board of directors of the third, PhotoSpin.com Stephanie began her career in the direct marketing realm creating and producing direct mail for many of the major cable television companies and directly attributes her understanding of Internet marketing to those early offline experiences. Stephanie is a graduate of San Diego State University with a BFA in Graphic Arts and also holds an Executive MBA from the Graziadio School of Business and Management at Pepperdine University. Read Steph's Blog Meet Steph and Dave Sign up for our Free 7-Day BootCamp: Self Employed & Rich - Visit Stephanie Robey's Website |
|||
George LudwigGeorge Ludwig is a recognized authority on sales strategy and peak performance psychology. An international speaker, trainer, and corporate consultant, he helps clients like Johnson & Johnson, Abbott Laboratories, Northwestern Mutual, CIGNA, and numerous others improve sales force effectiveness and performance. Though it's George's strategies and processes that help corporations increase productivity and performance, it's his tremendous energy and dynamism that spark the transformation. Again and again, clients remark on his amazing ability to unleash human capacity and inspire men and women to break out of their comfort zones. The result is a whole new type of salesperson. His customized presentations teach achievers to make stunning advances in their lives. From helping salespeople realize cherished dreams to helping corporations exponentially accelerate revenue streams, George Ludwig leaves audiences and individuals empowered, emboldened, and clamoring for more. George is the best-selling author of Power Selling: Seven Strategies for Cracking the Sales Code and Wise Moves: 60 Quick Tips to Improve Your Position in Life & Business. - Visit George Ludwig's Website |
|||
Linda RichardsonLinda Richardson is the Founder and Executive Chairwoman of Richardson, a global sales training and performance improvement company. As a recognized leader in the industry, she has won the coveted Stevie Award for Lifetime Achievement in Sales Excellence and she was identified by Training Industry, Inc. as one of the “Top 20 Most Influential Training Professionals.” Ms. Richardson is credited with the movement to Consultative Selling and is the author of ten books on selling and sales management, including Sales Coaching — Making the Great Leap from Sales Manager to Sales Coach, and Stop Telling, Start Selling. She teaches sales and management at the Wharton Graduate School of the University of Pennsylvania and the Wharton Executive Development Center. Linda is a frequent speaker at industry and client conferences, has been published extensively in industry and training journals, and has been featured in numerous publications, including The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Nation’s Business, Selling Power, Success, and The Conference Board Magazine. Learn more about Richardson's sales training and performance improvement solutions at http://www.richardson.com web - Visit Linda Richardson's Website |
|||
Joe DagerJoe Dager is President of Business901, a progressive coaching company providing no-nonsense direction in areas such as Lean Six Sigma Marketing and organized referral marketing. What others say: In the past 20 years, Joe and I have collaborated on many difficult issues. Joe’s ability to combine his expertise with “out of the box” thinking is unsurpassed. He has always delivered quickly, cost effectively and with ingenuity. A brilliant mind that is always a pleasure to work with.” - James R. If you want to learn more about Business901, start a conversation with us. We can be found @ Web/Blog: Business901.com Web/Blog: FundingYourNonprofit.com LinkedIn Profile Follow me on Twitter - Visit Joe Dager's Website |
|||
|
To learn more about the Evan Elite Author Program please contact us. | |||
 | |
|  |
Subscribe to Karen's articles
 | |
|
|  |
 | |
|
| |
 | |||||||
|
 | ||
 |
||
|
||
|
||
|
| ||
 |
| Have you written articles that would be of value to entrepreneurs? Become an expert on our site by publishing them! Expose yourself to a wide audience, drive more traffic to your website and get more sales! Click Here for details. |
|
|
 |
| Modeling the Masters: Learn the true secrets behind Walt Disney's business success factors & grow your company! Video produced by Phanta Media |
|
|
 |
"Learn straight from Evan how you can Make a Full Time Income (And More) from a Website"
Click Here To 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!
|
|
|
 FREE Twitter Background in PSD Spring Cleaning Make Attitude Your Ally Canadian Leadership Networking Impacts Income |
|
 | ||
 |
The Top 10 ProBlogger Posts
Best Posts for Bloggers | |
 |
Top 50 Debt Blogs
Learn To Get Out Of Debt | |
| ||
 | ||||
| ||||
|
| ||||
| ||||
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||
|
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 and Sean Combs!
|
|
|
| ||||||||||
|
| ||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||