To realize the value of ONE MONTH, ask a mother who gave birth to a premature baby.
To realize the value of ONE WEEK, ask the editor of a weekly newspaper.
To realize the value of ONE HOUR, ask the lovers who are waiting to meet.
To realize the value of ONE MINUTE, ask a person who missed the train.
To realize the value of ONE SECOND, ask a person who just avoided an accident.
To realize the value of ONE MILLISECOND, ask the person who won a silver medal in the Olympics.
Treasure every moment that you have!
The methods of time management can be learned by realizing that:
You can establish priorities that highlight your most important goals, allowing you to base your decisions on
what is important to you and what is not.
You can create time by realistic scheduling and be the elimination of low priority tasks.
You can learn to make basic decisions.
Time Management is a myth.
No matter how organized we are; there are only 24 hours in a day. Time doesn't change. All we can actually manage is
ourselves and what we do with the time that we have.
The 1st Step to becoming more successful is to evaluate how you are spending your time now; this is going to give you a benchmark to track your progress.
Tracking your daily activities lets you see where your time is being spent, and give you the data you need to set goals and make the changes to your work habits
that will make you more successful.
You can use a day-planner, calendar, software program, digital recorder or a paper notebook to record your daily activities. Use whatever you are comfortable using.
Don't record unnecessary information (example: I talked on the phone today for 20 minutes with Mary and she told me that her son is getting straight A's in school.)
You want to write down something like: personal phone call - 20 minutes. It is the activity and the time you spent on it that is important to capture. Also at this point,
don't distinguish between personal and home based business activities at this point. You want a complete picture of your schedule.
Example recorded entires might be:
training class - 1 hour
personal phone call - 40 minutes
surfing the Internet - 2 hours
watching favorite TV show - 1 hour
reading and sending emails - 30 minutes
Now that you have identified how you are spending your time, you can start to eliminate some of your time wasters.
Following is a short list of time wasters:
Procrastinating
Indecision - thinking about it, worrying about it, putting it off
Lack of support from family and friends
Creating inefficiency's by implementing first instead of analyzing first
Unanticipated interruptions that do not pay off
Making unrealistic time estimates
Poor organization
Doing urgent rather than important tasks
Failing to delegate
Keep the big picture of what you want to achieve in sight!