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When starting up a home business, time management is an area of business management often overlooked or neglected.

Sure enough, everybody knows some person in small business who races at it like a bull all day, without enough hours in a day, all they do is hurry and get overloaded - maybe this person is you! To the end of the day, when the dust settles, what have you gotten out of it? Do you review the day and realise “what happened to the time, I didn’t get so much completed as I hoped to do. If this sounds familiar, then you may just have an organisational and time management problem.

Successful people do not appear to rush, they always remain composed and unflustered. The difference in them and everybody else is they have accomplished time management.

What is time management? It is merely scheduling hours in your day in an organised and efficient method. Before we can truly take on how to time manage our day, we must figure for ourselves what we are trying to complete today, this week, this year and even up to ten years from now. This is “Goal setting”.

The easiest way in my view to take on goals is to write them down. You can think about these goals at points to make sure that they are appropriate and realisable but not so easy that you don’t need to work hard to complete them otherwise what is the purpose of your goals in the first place?

From the start of every new working year you can take time and think about what you desire to end up with this year. It may be that you hope to gross up your profits by 20%, you may hope to move into different premises, you could plan to get rid of your debt in a significant way. From the start of every new working week you may write down on a note pad or in your diary the large jobs that have to be taken care of this week, and check back them on every day to be sure that you’re making progress and hopefully polish some of the projects off the list.

You may have your list on your desk or in a spot where you will be continually reminded of what needs to be completed each week. Your list should be in order of importance so that the impending chores at the top of this list get finalised first up. All tasks not completed this week will be taken through to next week at a higher importance, this will ensure it gets achieved.

The next thing you can be doing is writing a daily list of tasks to do. This might help keep you organised during the day. Again, this list may be displayed where you can persistently check on it and check off the jobs finished. Writing off the projects can give you a pride of a job well done and let you review how you are going during the day. Always stay to the list where possible and try to continue working from the highest priority to lower priority. I know issues sometimes come up over the day that might throw the whole day topsyturvy, but you need to either take on the dilemma and get back on to the list or if the new dilemma isn’t as urgent as some of the tasks on your list then target it later on your list and continue on with the task you were doing.

Every job you hope to get done needs to be written down for a numerous reasons. Firstly, so you don’t put off to do it and secondly, so you have your day outlined and you get your daily goals. Be sensitive to initiating jobs and not finishing them. This will become tomorrow in a plethora of incomplete work and can cause “list blowout”.

You will end up with a list being a mile long and you will give it up in despair and change back to bad habits of working in a hurry all day and completing nothing.

Remember that every day you set your goals and write off every chore on your list, you will get a day closer to achieving your weekly and ultimately your yearly and long term goals.

A few essentials on Time Management:

• Do it once and do it well, it’s pointless returning to the work and needing to redo it.
• Learn to simply tell people when you’re too busy and that you would speak to them later.
• Learn to give other people items that actually don’t need your direct participation.
• Don’t go on wild goose chases.
• Don’t use up time with phone calls that will not achieve something.
• Don’t procrastinate.
• Check back to your list of things to do often at times through your day.
• “Map out your day” in the car and write out your daily list the second you get to work. Achieve what you begin.
• Prioritise all your chores, always take things in their order of importance to you and the clients.

Get away from time wasters, people who will simply go off to chat all day, and if they are your workers, set them straight, or get rid of them.

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