Does your day job get in the way of your work at home
business? Do you find you have no time to build your online
business or worst yet feeling overwhelmed and running in 10
different directions and getting nothing done? I have been
there! When I started my business opportunity, there was so
much to do learn that I could not focus on just one thing.
One of the first things I needed to get a grasp of was my
time. Time management is important to being able to juggle
my job, coming home to my online business and have quality
time for other things too like family, recreation and other
important appointments.
Being organized and efficient all the time to some people
is too cold and calculating. Some say you lack spontaneity
But the fact of the matter is that people who are
disorganized for the most part are confused and in any case
under a lot of stress. The better organized you are, the
more time and opportunity you have to be truly relaxed and
happy.
Negative talk from parents and other influential people
especially when growing up is a barrier from learning good
management skills. If your parents or other people said you
were messy and never on time for any thing. You may find
yourself believing or saying to others that's the way you
always been. The fact is nobody is born organized, messy
neat or efficient. Time management and organizational
skills are learned behaviors and if we have bad habits, we
can learn good ones.
Here are 3 essential time management tips I use to keep me
from procrastination and despair.
Use an appointment book that has a page for each day. Make
yourself a to-do list for everything you need to do whether
it's for work, home business or scheduled appointments.
Carry your list with you. I find that the most ideas and
tasks come up when I am doing other things like driving or
laying in bed. Having my list with me helps me to remember
by writing them down while it is fresh on my mind.
You only have so much time in a day so prioritizing your
list is important. As you complete a task, strike it out.
What you don't do in that day, bring it forward for the
next day or schedule it for a day when you can get to it.
Many people believe they don't have the ability to have
good time management skills. They think that they just grew
up that way. But there is no gene or chromosome for bad
organizational skills and time management skills. Simply
put time management skills and time management behavior is
a matter of choice. Being good at organizing your time must
first be learned then applied over and over again until it
is automatic.
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Kerry Johnson is a mentoring coach with Mentoring For Free.
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