Mananging Your Time as a Business Owner 2
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There are dozens of ways to control the way you use time. Some involve doing very simple things such as keeping a list of office supplies that are running low. Referring to such a list and replenishing your stock before you run out will help you avoid frantic last-minute races around town to pick up some supply you need to finish a job. If some of the supplies you use are hard to find, ordering them ahead of time could save your neck as well as your time. A client wouldn't be very happy to hear her job won't be delivered in the morning because you ran out of some crucial supply last night.
Other time and clutter management tips may require willingness to change lifelong habits and attitudes. If you were born to clutter, procrastinate, and start umpteen projects at once, you may need to manage your time more efficiently by focusing your activities and/or restructuring your environment for productivity.
Gaining control of your time is a three-step process:
1. Decide what you want to achieve with your time now and in the long run.
2. Pinpoint activities or interruptions that interfere with what you want to achieve. 3. Implement appropriate changes to eliminate or minimize the obstacles to attaining your goals.
How do I get started?
Getting in touch with yourself doesn't have to be a long, involved or unduly emotional project. It simply means thinking about the things you most want to do and what you need to do to accomplish those things. You can break the process of getting yourself more organized into these four simple steps:
- Make a written list of long- and short-range goals
- Keep a time log to monitor the way you now use your time.
- Evaluate how the way you use time relates to the goals you want to achieve
- Restructure your activities environment, habits, and/or workloads one by one to eliminate inefficient habits and time-wasting routines.
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