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When you start a home based business, time management is an aspect of business management frequently overlooked or ignored.

Sure enough, we all know some person in small business who races around like a chicken with its head cut off all day, never enough hours in a day, all they do is panic and get overtaken - is it that this person is you! At the end of the week, when the pace settles, what have you completed? Do you reflect on the day and realise “what happened to the hours, I didn’t get as much completed as I thought I would. If this seems familiar, then you may have an organisational and time management problem.

Successful people never appear to rush, they are always composed and unflustered. The difference with them and others is they have mastered time management.

What is time management? It is simply arranging hours in your day in an organised and efficient way. Before we can fully go ahead with how to time manage our day, we first must ask ourselves what we are aiming to master today, this week, this year and up to ten years from now. This is “Goal setting”.

The most effective key in my opinion to complete goals is to write them down. You might go back to all your goals at times to make sure that they are relevant and possible but not so easy to do that you don’t need to work hard to accomplish them otherwise what is the meaning of those goals in the first place?

From the start of each working year you can takethe time and think about what you desire to take away from this year. It may be that you hope to enlarge your profits by 20%, you may would like to move into better premises, you might wish to take down your debt finally. By the start of each new working week you can write down on a note pad or in your diary the signifcant jobs that have to be taken care of this week, and check on them every day to know that you’re making progress and hopefully polish some of those tasks from your list.

You should place the list on your desk or in a spot where you should be persistently reminded of what has to be undertaken throughout the week. This list may be in order of urgency so that the key projects at the top of this list get finished earlier. Any projects not completed this week should be put forward next week at a higher priority, this will demand it gets ticked off.

The next thing you could be doing is giving yourself a daily list of tasks to accomplish. This should assist keep you on track throughout the day. Again, this list should be put up where you can persistently see it and write off the projects done. Polishing off the items helps to give you a feeling of accomplishment and remind you how you are working over the day. Always adhere to the list if possible and try to continue working from the top priority to the lesser priority. I know issues can turn up through the day that may throw the whole day up, but you must either take on the crisis and get back to your list or if the sudden dilemma isn’t as serious as some of the tasks on your list then list it for later on the list and continue doing the job you were doing.

Every aspect of work you plan to get done needs to be written down for a number of reasons. Firstly, so you don’t put off to do it and secondly, so you have your day planned and you realise your daily goals. Beware initiating chores and not completing them. This may become tomorrow in a disaster of half finished chores and can cause “list blowout”.

You will end up with the list a mile long and you will throw it out in despair and revert back to old habits of getting yourself in confusion each day and realizing nothing.

Remember for every day you write out your goals and polish off all the projects on your list, you become a little bit closer to polishing off your weekly and finally your yearly and long term goals.

A few essentials on Time Management:

• Do it once and do it well, it’s pointless going back to the chore and having to redo it.
• Learn to simply tell people when you’re busy and that you will get back to them later.
• Learn to pass out work that truly don’t require your involvement.
• Don’t go on wild goose chases.
• Don’t waste time with phone calls that can’t do something.
• Don’t procrastinate.
• Review your list of work to do continually at times through your day.
• “Map out your day” in the morning and plan out your daily list as soon as you begin work. Accomplish what you start.
• Prioritise all your tasks, always keep tasks in their order of urgency to you and your business.

Get away from time wasters, people who would just decide to chat all day, and if they are your workers, set them straight, or get rid of them.

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