When starting up a home business, time management is an aspect of business management that is frequently overlooked or neglected.
Surely we all know a friend in small business who races around like a bull all day, seldom enough hours in their day, all they do is hurry and get overwhelmed - perhaps this person is you! Come the end of the week, when the pace settles, what have you taken from it? Do you replay the day and ponder “what happened to the day, I didn’t get so much done as I thought I would. If this feels familiar, then you may have an organisational and time management problem.
Successful people do not seem to rush, they always seem composed and unflustered. The difference from them and everybody else is they command time management.
What is time management? It is merely arranging time in your day in an organised and efficient scheme. Before we can really take on how to time manage our day, we first must decide for ourselves what we are attempting to accomplish today, this week, this year and possibly ten years from now. This is “Goal setting”.
The best process in my preference to take on goals is to write them down. You could review your goals from time to time to know that they are purposeful and workable but not so simple that you don’t have to put in the hard work to achieve them otherwise what is the meaning of the goals in the first place?
From the beginning of a new working year you can pause and ponder what you wish to accomplish this year. It may be that you hope to gross up your profits by 20%, you might desire to move into other premises, you may wish to take down your debt in a susbstantial way. At the start of every new working week you may write down on a note pad or in your diary the large projects that need to be done this week, and look back to them on each day to know that you’re making progress and hopefully check some of your tasks off the list.
You might have your list on your desk or on a place where you should be persistently reminded of what must be done each week. The list should be in order of necessity so that the major chores at the top of your list get finished first. All the jobs not finished this week need to be taken up to next week on a higher urgency, this should demand it gets accomplished.
The next thing you can be doing is having a daily list of projects to take care of. This will assist keep you organised each day. Again, this list may be put where you can continually look at it and wipe off the chores finalised. Finishing off the jobs can give you a sense of success and let you review how you are moving over the day. Always stay to the list when possible and try to keep working from high priority to less priority. I know loopholes do come up during the day that sometimes throw the whole day out of whack, but you must either take on the problem and get back on to your list or if the unplanned work isn’t as time sensitive as some of the chores on your list then put it after these on the list and continue doing the chore you were doing.
Each item you have to complete can be written down for a couple of reasons. Firstly, so you don’t neglect to do it and secondly, so you keep your day organised and you accomplish your daily goals. Be sensitive to initiating items and not completing them. This could turn tomorrow in a plethora of incomplete chores and could cause “list blowout”.
You will end up with a list being a mile long and you will give up in despair and go back to old habits of working in a hurry during your day and realizing nothing.
Remember that each day you set your goals and polish off every job on your list, you will be a step closer to finalising your weekly and ultimately your yearly and long term goals.
A few essentials on Time Management:
Get away from time wasters, people who merely like to chat all day, and if they are your workers, set them straight, or get rid of them.
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