The one thing that everyone has an equal amount of is time. The are 24 hours in a day. Everyone has this same amount everyday.Then why is it that some folks seem to accomplish so much more than others?That my friend is a good question. There are a lot of folks that say I would just love to do this, or I would love to do that but I am so busy I just do not have time.

You know we are busy from the time we get up in the morning till the time we go to bed every night. Buy what are we really busy doing?

A good improvement idea is to write it down assignments in a book.

Each time you tell somebody to do something or when somebody like your boss asks you to do something writing it down in a book along with the date and the time can provide significant improvement. Do not be afraid of being thought about as a person with a very poor memory. It won’t be long before people start thinking of you as a highly organized person.

If you have an electronic pocket organizer be sure to use it.

Each time someone gives you his or her telephone number, immediately enter it into your pocket organizer, the name, number and any other vital information of this person.

* The first thing you want to do is sit down and write out a list of all of your required responsibilities for the week so you know what you need to be doing.  The things that you absolutely need to get done over the week. Things like daily chores around the house. Your family , work responsibilities ect…  Then prioritize them in the order of importance.

* Next You need to  know what you are currently spending your time on. You need to get yourself a daily planner and for one week write down everyday what you did and how much time it took to do it.  I mean everything that you do. How long  for cooking meals, time on the computer, tv, phone. How long it takes to get ready for work, traveling to work or school etc…. You want to study what you did for the week and how much time it took for each activity. Then anything that is not of immediate importance to your list you  either stop doing that activity or greatly cut back on the time you spend on it.  Things like time on the phone, computer, watching television.   

* Now to get more done in less time you will start off your day working only on those items on your list and nothing else until those tasks are completed.

* The real key also is to not let any thing distract you and get you off track of your work. Example of this would be do not answer the phone  either unplug the phone or let the answering machine take a message.  Do  not answer the door or if you do let who ever is at the door know that you are busy and this is not a good time. If you have a favorite show that is on early in the day when you need to be working on your responsibilities then tape it so that you can watch it later.

The key to be able to get more done in less time is to know what needs to be done. Do not do any thing else until you have accomplished your work and do not let any thing interrupt your work.

Now go get busy applying this in your own life.

You will be really surprised at how much free time you really have to accomplish what you need and want to get done.

Now get busy writing out your list

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An important aspect of performing a work behavior is to examine the manner you are currently behaving and what needs to change. The same thing is relevant to the way you spend your time. If you can identify where your time wasters arise and the hours within the day and the places in your workplace you’re not getting your work done, then you can start to find solutions these particular costly interferences and use your time more profitably.

In view that you’re going through this article implies you recognize and have felt a clue that your time management skills aren’t up to standards. But before you can start with tackling the behavior that’s limiting your time, you need to work out just which bad habits you’ve fallen into.

Accounting for Your Time

One of the simplest tips for time management you can master is to start recording your time. Usually people have a skewed view of the amount of time plans take up. So, the optimal way to get a more accurate idea of how you nowadays use up your time is to start jotting down accounts of your daily and hourly activities, such as when you begin an activity and the length of time it takes up out of your day.

Spend the next week making a note of everything you spend time on a daily basis. Make it as specific as you care to have it. You can also limit your note-taking only to your work hours or you can extend them to include the entire day.

So what time do you begin doing your most important tasks? How many minutes do you need to get ready in the morning? How many hours does it take to get to work? How much time do you use for exercise? How long are you with friends and family, and so on? Write everything down, and you’ll have a more accurate picture of where you’re allocating your time.

Now you’ve got a more accurate picture of where you are giving away your time everyday. You can probably already recognize a few significant blocks of time where you’re not utilizing your time most profitably; such as the periods when you find yourself interrupted or disorganized and going back and forth from one job to another. And maybe you can also start to recognize the important things that you don’t have time for like engaging in physical fitness activities, good conversations with close friends and spending time with your children and partner. Once you have this information you are in much better shape to begin executing some easy effective time management techniques to help make more productive use of your time and define a more productive, effective and successful life style.

Chunks of Time in Your Normal Day

What matters in time efficiency management is how much of the 24 hours in a day you dedicate to each activity. Splitting your day down into chunks of time can help you realize just how you are spending your time these days. Take a normal work day, and guess how many hours you utilize on stuff like chores such as grocery shopping, doing the laundry, and so on. Also take note of how much time you spend for your personal needs such as eating, washing, dressing, sleeping, and etc. And after you calculate all these hours, you will know exactly how many minutes you have left on average for yourself such as physical fitness, socializing, and activities that promote relaxation.

Be Proactive

There are lots of dreamers in the world and dreams are a good thing, but if all you do is dream, you’ll never realize your goals.

Success doesn’t happen unless we take action.

Becoming a success and achieving your dreams requires hard work - and action. Don’t let fear keep you from starting. You must take the responsibility to ensure your dreams come to pass.

Thomas Edison is remembered as a great inventor, but before he succeeded, he invented a lot of things that failed. Abraham Lincoln is remembered as a great President, but before he became President, he failed in business multiple times. Babe Ruth was a great baseball player, but even he struck out many times at the plate.

Likewise, we must be willing to step up to the plate, take our swing, hope for the home run, but also be happy with a base hit.

Babe Ruth got some free walks because he was such a fearsome batter, but we’re not in his league. Most of us don’t get things dropped in our laps, we have to work for them.

Don’t Procrastinate!

How many people do you know who’s frequent answer is “I’ll do it later”, when all you ever see them actually do is sit around on the couch, or take long naps, or maybe, if they’re the active type - go off and play a round of golf.

But taking any action to realize their goals?

Oh, no, “I’ll do it manana”.

“Don’t be one of those couch potatoes.

Your dreams are important to you, but the only way to realize them and accomplish success in life that you both want and deserve is to get up off the couch and take some action.

What could you do today to increase the chances that you’ll realize your dreams?

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Don’t wait for life to hand you success on a silver platter; it’s not likely to happen!

There are 24 hours in a single day, of which the average person spends eight hours at work and eight hours sleeping…

That makes 40 hours per week of free time that you can do with as you wish during the workweek plus an additional 32 hours of awake time on the weekend.

The average person actually spends twice as much time away from work than at it. So what can you do with all of the spare time you acquired from reading the few sentences above? Over 72 hours a week in all!

First, you should realize that most successful people do not work only forty hours a week. So you may start by applying at least 10 of those 72 hours towards furthering of your career.

If you have your own business, it will be easy to spend an extra eight hours of work productively. If you work for someone else you can take home extra work and show the boss you put in the extra effort that other employees don’t.

Better still, you may want to use this extra time to start a business of your own…something that fits in with your hobbies and can be fun as well as profitable, like baseball cards, or model planes.

You could start your own cleaning business, or maybe a consulting practice to sell your knowledge to large businesses or local businesses.

The possibilities are almost endless; and if you spend enough of your extra time doing them, you may well find you create another career for yourself. This is how many successful companies originated.

At least one hour a day should be spent in furthering your knowledge of your business or industry through reading, courses, and seminars. This takes another seven hours from your free time but still leaves you with just over fifty-seven free hours.

An absolute minimum of ten to fifteen minutes should be spent on planning for the next business day. Reviewing your plans for the day should be the first thing you do in the morning and the last thing you do when you leave work at the end of the day.

You still have over 55 hours of free time to spend as you please, but rather than continue eating into your free time, let’s take a look at how you can better use your working time.

Work Time

Many people complain of a lack of time to do all the required daily business tasks. The best way to resolve this is to plan your days in advance, in blocks of time, hour-by-hour, minute-by-minute.

By writing down how you plan to spend your time, you will instantly become far more productive. More productivity means more money and more success.

You must use your time wisely. Time is the only thing you have to sell to your company or business. How much of the time that you spend at work is really spent working? The truth of the matter is very little of it is spent working efficiently.

Instead you are probably spending the day as most people with poor time management skills do: putting out fires that other people started, shuffling papers around, and writing memos.

Here is a simple eye-opener that will let you see just how much work you are really accomplishing. Show up at work tomorrow with a stopwatch and write down how you spend all of your time in five-minute intervals. Keep the sheet and stopwatch in front of you at all times.

As you start each new task, write down on the paper what that task is and start the stop watch. As you change tasks — phone calls, interruptions from co-workers, etc.– write down what the new activity is and how long you spend on it.

At the end of the work day, grab a pen and piece of paper and write the following headings on it.

1) Meaningful work

2) Wasted time for the day (this includes interruptions, unimportant phone calls, etc.)

3) Problems that need solutions.

4) Low priority/low return work.

List underneath each of your headings the tasks you have dealt with that day. Then add up the total time spent in each category.

Now you will have a shocking picture of just how few of the hours you spend at work are spent on high-priority, money-making, business growing, or goal-oriented tasks that help your business.

Instead, what you will probably find is that looking for information, interruptions, and wasted time are the winners in the battle for your precious time.

Develop a Time-Efficient Work Environment

This means to have all your tools and resources in working order and at your disposal. More of your time is lost through disorganized paper management and searching for misplaced documents and reports than through any other cause.

Make a habit of keeping all your work areas and desks free of all paper except what is needed for the task at hand. When have completed a piece of work, remove it from your workspace as soon as possible, mail it, file it, trash it, or do whatever action is applicable, but do not leave anything on your desk or it will take up time when you are looking for it the next day.

Start Each Day With a Clear Detailed Plan

If you truly want to get the most out of every day, it is essential that you begin each with a clear plan. I usually plan the next day’s events at the very end of the business day. Take a day planner and write down all those tasks you want to complete the next day.

Write each task down on paper or in excel and number them in the order of importance. Start with the most important task and stick with it until you have finished it or reached the point that you wished to reach for that day. It gives me great pleasure and satisfaction to line out each task as it is accomplished. 

After an overall list of tasks for the day, I plan the day’s specific activities in 15-30 minute intervals using a daily planner. Plan all of your meetings and phone calls. Proper daily planning has allowed me to write 20 books on marketing strategies and also manage a golf marketing company and a golf management firm.

Always set a time limit on meetings, especially with people who are don’t pay for your time. Stick as closely as possible to your time-lines.

If you schedule 60 minutes to talk to a marketing representative, then let them know that is all the time you can spend with them. They will make their points faster, thus allowing you to save time.

As you come close to the end of your allotted time for a given task, give a two minute warning to yourself via a stopwatch or by using outlooks calendar function. Try to bring your business to a close quickly and efficiently.

Always Write Things Down

Keep a pen and paper by your phone. I can hardly believe the number of companies I call only to be asked to hold while the employee finds a pen and paper.

A pen and paper are the world’s most indispensable business tools, and you should NEVER be without them. I keep my appointment calendar somewhere near my desk at all times so if I am speaking to someone I can grab it and take notes as we talk. I note why they called and how I am supposed to follow up.

In that way, I have a record of the time, date, and purpose of their call so I can refer back to it if necessary at a future date if I need it. I also always write a person’s phone number under their name. In that way, I never have to search further than my appointment book for names and addresses.

Don’t Waste Your Time

Treat each minute as the extremely important and cherished resource it is. Every single person in this world starts out each day with the same amount of time in which to accomplish tasks and objectives. The only part that differs from person to person is how that time is used.

Successful people try to squeeze every second of opportunity from the day, while those at the lower levels simply waste it away.

If you want to make $100,000 dollars a year, you must make $40 dollars an hour. That is exactly .66 cents per minute! If you spend 20 minutes on the phone talking to your buddy down the street about Monday night’s football game, you have just wasted $13.20 of your very increasingly valuable time.

If you are taking hour long lunch breaks instead of 30 minutes ones, you just lost $19.80 of your important time. Once lost, time will never be regained.

The next time you find yourself involved in a time-wasting situation, ask yourself this question. Do you think I would pay my friend down the street $13.20 in cold hard cash out of my wallet, right now, to listen to me talk about last night’s game?

The answer, of course, is no. Yet, that is exactly what you are doing. Wasting $13.20 of your cash, which should be dedicated to reaching your goals and serving your clients or business.

If you are working on a project and are interrupted by a call that takes ten minutes, it often takes another ten minutes to get back to what you were doing. Instead of being interrupted twenty times a day, schedule 30 minutes a day for returning phone calls that are not important.

These are calls from college buddies, telemarketers, salesmen,or other people who are not actual customers. Your time at work is far too valuable to allow constant interruptions throughout the day. By setting a specific time, it also eliminates annoying games of phone tag and keeps you focused.

If you wanted to earn $60,000 a year you would need to make $5,000 per month. This works out to be $1,153 per week, based on a 48-hour, six-day week, which we will say is typical for most successful people.

This breaks down further to be $192 per day or $24 per hour. This information is something you now have to help you reach your goals. You know exactly what you must make each and every hour that you are working in order to reach your desired income level.

Now let’s see which of your daily tasks really produce that desired figure of $24 per hour?

• Advertising your yourself or business to others.
• Increasing your inventory of skills.
• Researching new marketing ideas and using it for your business.
• Marketing yourself to other businesses.

These are some of the tasks that really could produce $24 per hour. Good marketing will create new prospects and leads. Selling, whether it is a direct sale of one of your products or getting someone to give you an interview for a better job, always pays off.

Marketing can keep other businesses involved in the life of your company and brings new blood in the form of contacts and prospects. Increasing your skills makes you more valuable to yourself and others, and this will pay off quickly.

Then, of course, there are the tasks that do not produce $24 per hour.

• Paying bills
• Ordering inventory
• Typing letters
• Adding to a database

I am not suggesting that any of these things are not important to the overall success of your business. Rather, I’m suggesting that you can find someone else to do these kinds of tasks for just a few bucks an hour, allowing you to focus on the important high-return task.

The Word that Will Allow You to Successfully do Time Management

The simple act of saying, “NO,” will save you more time, energy, and effort than you can ever imagine. In an overexerted effort to try to please everyone, we often find ourselves taking on more and more responsibility, activities and stress.

At some point, you simply have to say, “NO, I am sorry but I can’t spend time doing that.” Try it; it’s not that hard, and the people asking get over your refusal very quickly. They are probably calling someone else right now to help them.

Set aside a certain amount of hours in your plan each week to donate your time to the charity you think is a good cause. Once that time is used up, it is gone, and there is no more.

Remember the words of Napoleon who said, “You can ask me for anything you like… except for my time.”

Many a time, so much time is spent at work that we barely have time for ourselves. Bringing work home, working late, or overworking ourselves to exhaustion eats up our personal time for reflection that is essential for our personal growth. Here are 5 steps to help you manage your time effectively so that you will have ample time to devote to your journey of personal growth.

1. Identify your time-bandits
Time-bandits are little activities that steal your productivity-time without you realizing it. Identify those little scoundrels - be it surfing the Internet, checking your email or checking Facebook. Track your activities thoroughly so that you are cognizant of what you're actually spending your time on.

2. Create goals
As much as we want to, we cannot change time. No matter what we do, there will still be only 24 hours a day. So instead of ruminating, set goals to start eliminating these time-wasters.. and establish plans and strategies to help yourself keep track of them! Whether it's a day-timer or a software program, physically manage your time and be aware of how you're going to spend your time. Use software programs to schedule events and tasks, and set alerts so that you are reminded of them in advance to help you manage your time.

3. Prioritize, prioritize, prioritize
Identify your most important tasks of the day and your performance benchmark. Keep your most important tasks to 2-3 and focus on accomplishing them by the end of the day. Alternatively, arrange your tasks in order from most to least important. That way, your day will be spent more productively, striking off urgent tasks on your list instead of allowing less important tasks to steal your time.

4. Learn Delegation
A one-man show is rarely ever needed. To optimize your productivity, some people need to carry some of your load.

5. Establish routines and create new habits
We’re all creatures of habit and thrive in routine. Establishing fixed routines and new positive habits with regards to how you manage your time helps you automate new practices and build stronger personal systems for yourself to adhere to. In fact, starting your day out with positive habits that contribute to your personal growth can help you start the day out more positively and with more energy to blast through the day!

Time management is essential for optimal function - whether at the office, at home or for your journey of personal growth.

Are you an unorganized time waster?  Are you tired of feeling the pressure of procrastination?  Follow these tips to remedy procrastination. 

First, get motivated and organized.  Once you are convinced that you can achieve a goal, you will achieve it.  Therefore, set goals and learn to get organized to move toward them.  Prepare a daily planner.  List tasks and create deadlines.  Once you finish a task before your deadline and reward yourself.  Get rid of clutter and keep only those things you need on your desk.

Don’t get caught up in whether you will succeed or fail before you start a project.  That will only create anxiety.  Don’t think ahead and get yourself overwhelmed.  Conceptualize each task and work on it simultaneously.

Try to estimate how long it will take you to complete each task.  Don’t overestimate your ability to finish a task too quickly.  When it comes to time management, learn to use the word ‘No.’ Don’t try to do everything at one time.  Don’t accept every single offer of work.  Accept work that you can do and need, just say no to the rest.

Use technology to your advantage.  Use a database that will help you keep data organized and in one place.  Work in symbiosis with technology.  Check your email box regularly and make it a priority to keep your inbox at zero.  Create a system that will categorize your emails. 

Set goals and prioritize.  Make goals current, medium, and long term.  Focus on your current goals.  Cut your expectations to keep yourself calm so that you can move forward.  Once you do this and note the success rate.  Plan time for relaxation which will help energize you.  Don’t create such a hectic schedule so that you will feel too much pressure.

Follow these tips and take control of planning and time.  Commit to a few simple steps and you will find that yourself moving away from procrastination.

For those people with busy lives being pulled in thousands of directions, the premise that a time management system will help them get the most out of their day is a familiar one.

Perhaps you have tried putting into practice some of the organizing tips available in the many books and articles on the subject. But have you ever asked yourself how successful those ideas have been in practice? Is it possible to find that the very techniques you thought would save you time, have actually eaten into your time themselves, with relatively little profit.

Were you were lulled into the idea that goal setting software would grant you success in achieving your heart’s desire, or that gloriously graphic organizers would transform your life into an efficient machine?

Effective time management does not involve getting the latest software, or {glitzy |}leather bound organizers. Neither does it necessitate spending half your day organizing computer files instead of creating them, or creating long to do lists rather than doing the tasks on the list. No one denies the importance of managing your time, but to do it well it must also be effective. So what does that mean exactly?

In the first instance, it must be uniquely tailored to you. There is a myth which states that the time tips are about managing time itself. Some even believe it creates extra time for tasks. The truth is that to effective manage time, your behaviour is what you should manage, and managing it better in order to make sure you are getting things done, rather than simply planning to do so.

And so it is of no use if you spend time to waste time on things that do not help you to save time.

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Does your life sometimes feel like there’s just too much to do and not enough time to do it in?

Do you sometimes feel like you are trying to keep 10 or more plates spinning on the end of very long wobbly poles, like some Circus act?

Tighther and tighter time frames combined with smaller and smaller budgets in the workplace are exhasperating the problems around managing to-do lists and adding very real pressure to peoples abilities to balance the demands of family and relationships

With the economy taking the turn that it has, more people are being made redundant or resigning and not being replaced.

So more and more, is being asked to be done by fewer and fewer people.
Arguably, there is less to be done and thats why people are being made redundant in the first place, but that’s not always true.

Upon investigation, a couple of common trends generally start to appear.

Firstly. How are you expected to cope with the growing expectations of others? Those around that all expect “stuff” from you - your boss, staff, customers and family

Secondly. How do you cope with your own feelings and expectations? Sometimes it is our own expectations of ourself, that makes it hardest. If you expect of yourself to do it all - and will all due respect Mum’s are particularly good at what we call “SuperWoman Syndrome” - trying to not dissapoint anyone but then inversely resented the additional responsibilities.

Thirdly. Is how to see the wood from the trees, in other words “What’s Important & relevant” vs “What’s not as important or maybe even relevant”

Feelings of being overwhelmed and impending doom are not unusual at this stage….
This can lead to a state of “Oh my God - where do I start!”!” feeling.

If you don’t have time to even pause, of course it’s going to be hard to think clearly.

However there is a solution to this very common challenge that enables you to enjoy real relief, improve the quality of life and to do so in a sustainable way.

Take a look at our Blog posting entitled “Achieve the Things that are Important to You,” - in particular the part that explains Chapter Six of the Go For Gold, Goal Setting that Really Works Program, which is all about “Proven ways of Leveraging Time and how to enjoy true quality of life”.

For more information on How to Get What You Want in your Life, enrol for our free video series that discusses practical stategies and methods to go about identifying and achieving the things that are indeed important to you.

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Success depends upon action. Dreams are great motivators, but if all you ever do is dream, you’ll not succeed very much in life.

Becoming a success and achieving your dreams requires hard work - and action. Don’t let fear of failure, or what others might say, keep you from realizing your dreams. Your dreams are important to you, and realizing them is entirely up to you.

We remember Thomas Edison as a great inventor, but before he succeeded, he invented a lot of “failures.”. Abraham Lincoln is remembered as a great President, but before he became President, he failed in business multiple times. Before Babe Ruth set the record for home runs, he struck out many times.

We must be proactive, and take our best swing, if we ever hope to become successful.

I’m sure Babe Ruth got free “walks” many times - but that was because he was such a great hitter that the pitchers were afraid to let him bat. Most of us don’t get things dropped in our laps, we have to work for them.

How many times have you heard someone say, “Don’t rush me, I’ll get around to it” (i.e., when all they ever do is sit on the couch, snooze, or play golf (the “Round Tu-It” trap).

But taking any action to realize their goals? Oh, no, “I’ll get around to it.” Don’t be one of those couch potatoes. Your dreams are important to you, but the only way to realize them and realize success in life that you both want and deserve is to get up off the couch and take some action.

What next step could you take in the next five minutes to move you closer to your goals?If you need some hints, take a look at the Infinite Income Plan.

Don’t wait; do it now!

Timothy Ferriss, author of the 4 Hour Work Week, is a self described “serial entrepreneur and ultravagabond” who lives a lifestyle that most of us could only dream about — until now. Ferriss’ free-wheeling book has been a #1 Wall Street Journal Best Seller, a #1 NY Times Best Seller, and a #1 BusinessWeek Bestseller.

Ferriss presents a step-by-step guide to his free-wheeling lifestyle, allowing us to follow in his footsteps and realize lifelong dreams. Some people consider him to be heroic, like an “Indiana Jones for the digital age”.

Replace obsolete assumptions with the Rules of the New Rich and enjoy life more right now.

We home business owners need to replace these assumptions because they limit us and prevent us from enjoying life. We’d like to be able to manage our businesses, and our lives, from anywhere, anytime.

The New Rich (NR) believe that time and mobility are the most precious commodities. The Lifestyle Design (LD) process is both an art and a science.”

His model provides us with a roadmap for realizing our own lifelong dreams. He shows us how to:

• Live like a millionaire
• Free time and automate income
• Outsource your life to overseas virtual assistants for $5/hour
• Travel the world without quitting your job
• Eliminate 50% of your work in 48 hours
• Trade a long-haul career for short work bursts and mini-retirements

He uses the DEAL acronym to describe his model, where:

• D = Definition
• E = Elimination
• A = Automation
• L = Liberation

According to Ferris, the Rules of the New Rich include the following:

• Retirement is Worst-Case Scenario Insurance
• Interest and Energy are Cyclical
• Less is Not Laziness
• The Timing Is Never Right
• Ask for Forgiveness, Not Permission
• Emphasize Strengths, Don’t Fix Weaknesses
• Things in Excess Become the Opposite
• Money Alone is Not the Solution
• Relative Income is More Important than Absolute Income
• Distress is Bad, Eustress is Good

He encourages us to use “Dreamlining” to design our own luxurious lifestyles. Join the New Rich (NR) by focusing your current efforts on elimination, simplification and outsourcing.

Another key component of the lifestyle design process is automation; i.e.building systems and processes that eliminate ourselves as bottlenecks. Don’t automate anything that should be eliminated, and don’t delegate anything that should be automated or simplified.

This book shows how to recognize and seize opportunities that others miss. Having options.e.Power in life comes from the ability to choose.

Courage and self-confidence are the necessary ingredients for realizing our lifelong dreams.

This is a very compelling book and presents a plan that is easy to understand and apply. I plan to implement many of his ideas into my own life and am presently automating my income using the Infinite Income Plan.

I highly recommend this book - as well as Ferris’ website and blog.

This is a great book that I recommend to every online business owner I know. Ferriss has provided a wealth of valuable resources both in the book itself and on his website/blog.