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

Everybody knows someone in small business who races around like a madman all day, without enough hours in each day, all they do is push and get worked up - perhaps this person is you! Come the week’s end, when the dust settles, what have you completed? Do you replay the day and wonder “what happened to the hours, I didn’t get so much completed as I thought I could. If this seems familiar, then you may simply have an organisational and time management problem.

Successful people don’t seem to rush, they always stay composed and unflustered. The difference between them and the others is they achieve time management.

What is time management? It is just scheduling time in your day in an organised and efficient process. Before we can really understand how to time manage our day, we must decide for ourselves what we are hoping to do today, this week, this year and up to ten years from now. This is “Goal setting”.

The top method in my preference to complete goals is to write them down. You can think about the goals from time to time to feel that they are purposeful and achievable but not so achievable that you don’t need to try hard to accomplish them otherwise what is the point of your goals in the first place?

From the start of each new working year you can pause and plan what you wish to achieve this year. It could be that you wish to gross up your profits by 20%, you can hope to move into better premises, you may wish to get rid of your debt as much as possible. By the beginning of every working week you should write down on a note pad or in your diary the important projects that must to be achieved this week, and check back them on each day to ensure that you’re making progress and hopefully wipe some of those tasks from your list.

You can put your list on your desk or in a place where you will be persistently reminded of what must be undertaken each week. This list may be in order of necessity so that the most important chores at the top of your list get finalised early. Any jobs not checked off this week must be carried up to next week on a higher importance, this will make sure it gets checked off.

The next thing you could be doing is creating a daily list of chores to get done. This can assist keep you organised each day. Again, this list might be put where you are able to repeatedly check on it and check off the tasks accomplished. Writing off the tasks helps allow you a sense of achievement and let you check on how you are progressing through the day. Always stay to this list if possible and try to keep working from the top priority to the lower priority. I know difficulties sometimes come up through the day that could throw the whole day up, but you need to either take care of the situation and then return to your list or if the new chore isn’t as important as some of the tasks on the list then target it for later on your list and continue with the work you were doing.

Each item you plan to achieve needs to be written down for a few reasons. Firstly, so you don’t neglect to do it and secondly, so you have the day scheduled and you complete your daily goals. Be alert to initiating jobs and not completing them. This could become tomorrow in a plethora of not completed work and could cause “list blowout”.

You will end up with a list reading a mile long and you will throw it up in despair and change back to old habits of getting yourself in rush each day and achieving nothing.

Remember each day you plan your goals and polish off every job on your list, you get a day closer to succeeding in your weekly and soon your yearly and long term goals.

A few tips on Time Management:

• Do it once and do it well, it’s fruitless returning to the item and needing to redo it.
• Learn to civilly inform people when you’re too busy and that you can return to them at a later time.
• Learn to issue tasks that really don’t need your direct involvement.
• Don’t take on wild goose chases.
• Don’t spend time with phone calls that are not going to do something.
• Don’t procrastinate.
• Look at your list of work to do continually at times through the day.
• “Map out your day” in the car and schedule out your daily list the second you begin work. Accomplish what you list.
• Prioritise all your tasks, always take care of items in their order of urgency to you and the customers.

Avoid time wasters, people that will simply choose to chat all day, and if they are employed by you, set them straight, or get rid of them.

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