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When you are starting a from-home business, time management is an element of business management that is usually overlooked or left out of the equation.

Everybody knows a friend in small business who races at it like a mad dog all day, rarely enough hours in each day, all they do is push and get overloaded - is it that this person is you! Come the end of the week, when the dust settles, what have you taken from it? Do you review the day and wonder “what happened to the day, I didn’t get so much finished as I intended to. If this feels familiar, then you might just have an organisational and time management problem.

Successful people don’t appear to rush, they always remain composed and unflustered. The difference in them and the others is they have accomplished time management.

What is time management? It is simply arranging minutes in your day in an organised and efficient process. Before we can really get how to time manage our day, we first must decide for ourselves what we are hoping to achieve today, this week, this year and possibly ten years from now. This is “Goal setting”.

The most effective key in my opinion to accomplish goals is to write them down. You should think about these goals sometimes to know that they are relevant and workable but not so easy that you don’t have to put in the hard work to complete them otherwise what is the reason of any goals in the first place?

From the beginning of every working year you can sit down and reflect on what you desire to take away from this year. It could be that you want to gross up your profits by 20%, you perhaps hope to move into larger premises, you perhaps desire to take down your debt as much as possible. From the beginning of each new working week you could write down on a note pad or in your diary the signifcant chores that must to be done this week, and check back them on each day to know that you’re making progress and hopefully mark some of your projects from your list.

You may put the list on your desk or in a location where you could be persistently reminded of what needs to be undertaken this week. This list should be in order of priority so that the key chores at the top of your list get completed first up. All jobs not accomplished this week need to be brought up to next week at a higher priority, this will make sure it gets finalised.

The next thing you might not be doing is writing a daily list of chores to accomplish. This should assist keep you focused in the day. Again, this list should be placed where you are able to repeatedly refer to it and wipe off the tasks finished. Checking off the tasks helps to give you a feeling of achievement and let you know how you are moving during the day. Always adhere to the list where possible and keep working from top priority to less priority. I know things could show up during the day that can throw the whole day off schedule, but you need to either deal with the problem and get back on to your list or if the unplanned job isn’t as important as some of the items on your list then target it later on your list and continue on with the chore you were doing.

Each aspect of work you hope to do must be written down for a numerous reasons. Firstly, so you don’t forget to do it and secondly, so you have each day planned and you complete your daily goals. Be careful of starting chores and not finishing them. This would become tomorrow in a plethora of not completed jobs and could cause “list blowout”.

You will end up with your list being a mile long and you will give it up in despair and change back to old habits of being in a hurry during your day and finishing nothing.

Remember for each day you set your goals and polish off all the tasks on your list, you get a bit closer to accomplishing your weekly and ultimately your yearly and long term goals.

A few hints on Time Management:

• Do it once and do it well, it’s fruitless reverting to the work and having to redo it.
• Learn to civilly say to people when you’re busy working and that you can return to them later.
• Learn to give other employees work that truly don’t require your direct involvement.
• Don’t embark on wild goose chases.
• Don’t use up time with phone calls that cannot assist with something.
• Don’t procrastinate.
• Look back on your list of tasks to do repeatedly during the day.
• “Map out your day” in the car and write out your daily list when you arrive at work. Accomplish what you start.
• Prioritise all your chores, always begin issues in their order of importance to you and your business.

Stay away from time wasters, people that will merely decide to chat all day, and if they are your workers, set them straight, or get rid of them.

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