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When you start out in a home based business, time management is an element of business management that is overlooked or neglected.

Sure enough, we all know a person in small business who races around like a madman all day, never enough hours in a day, all they do is rush and get overloaded - maybe this person is you! At the day’s end, when the dust settles, what have you taken from it? Do you reflect on the day and ponder “what happened to the hours, I didn’t get so much done as I hoped I would. If this seems familiar, then you may simply have an organisational and time management problem.

Successful people do not seem to rush, they always seem composed and unflustered. The difference in them and the other people is they have accomplished time management.

What is time management? It is merely planning minutes in your day in an organised and efficient scheme. Before we can fully go ahead with how to time manage our day, we must decide for ourselves what we are attempting to master today, this week, this year and perhaps ten years from now. This is “Goal setting”.

The top way in my perspective to take on goals is to write them down. You might review all your goals from time to time to feel that they are relevant and achievable but not so easy to do that you don’t have to put in the work to complete them otherwise what is the point of the goals in the first place?

At the start of a working year you could take time and plan what you wish to get this year. It could be that you plan to gross up your profits by 20%, you perhaps decide to move into different premises, you may hope to take down your debt as much as possible. By the beginning of every new working week you may write down on a note pad or in your diary the major jobs that need to be achieved this week, and check up them on each day to be sure that you’re making progress and hopefully polish some of those chores off the list.

You may have the list on your desk or at a place where you can be persistently reminded of what has to be done this week. The list may be in order of necessity so that the impending jobs at the top of your list get accomplished early. Any tasks not done this week must be brought onto next week on a higher urgency, this should require it gets achieved.

The next thing you should be doing is giving yourself a daily list of projects to do. This might assist keep you organised during each day. Again, this list could be placed where you can repeatedly look at it and wipe off the items completed. Ticking off the items should allow you a pride of success and let you review how you are moving across the day. Always stick to your list if possible and try to keep working from higher priority to lower priority. I know changes will come up over the day that sometimes throw the whole day up in the air, but you must either take care of the dilemma and get back on to the list or if the new dilemma isn’t as serious as some of the jobs on the list then put it for later on the list and continue doing the chore you were doing.

Every issue you need to do must be written down for a number of reasons. Firstly, so you don’t put off to do it and secondly, so you keep each day outlined and you accomplish your daily goals. Be careful of beginning jobs and not finishing them. This might come back tomorrow in a plethora of not completed work and could cause “list blowout”.

You will end up with your list a mile long and you will give up in despair and go back to those habits of being in a hurry all day and completing nothing.

Remember for each day you plan your goals and write off all the jobs on your list, you will get a day closer to accomplishing your weekly and eventually your yearly and long term goals.

A few tips on Time Management:

• Do it once and do it well, it’s fruitless coming back to the job and having to redo it.
• Learn to politely tell people when you’re too busy and that you will get back to them some time later.
• Learn to delegate jobs that truly don’t need your direct participation.
• Don’t make off on wild goose chases.
• Don’t fizzle away time on phone calls that won’t take care of something.
• Don’t procrastinate.
• Look at your list of tasks to do regularly during your day.
• “Map out your day” in the car and list out your daily list the second you start work. Achieve what you initiate.
• Prioritise all your work, always keep tasks in their order of priority to you and the customers.

Stay away from time wasters, people that simply like to chat all day, and if they work for you, set them straight, or get rid of them.

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