When you are starting a home business, time management is an area of business management often overlooked or neglected.
We all know someone in small business who races about like a chicken with its head cut off all day, rarely enough hours in a day, all they do is hurry and get worked up - perhaps this person is you! At the end of the week, when the rush settles, what have you achieved? Do you think about the day and realise “what happened to the day, I didn’t get so much done as I planned. If this is familiar, then you may have an organisational and time management problem.
Successful people don’t ever appear to rush, they always remain composed and unflustered. The difference with them and others is they command time management.
What is time management? It is just allocating minutes in your day in an organised and efficient way. Before we can really get how to time manage our day, we need to decide for ourselves what we are planning to complete today, this week, this year and possibly ten years from now. This is “Goal setting”.
The top process in my opinion to take on goals is to write them down. You should review these goals sometimes to feel that they are purposeful and achievable but not so achievable that you don’t need to put in the hard work to succeed at them otherwise what is the reason of the goals in the first place?
At the beginning of every new working year you should sit and plan what you wish to get this year. It might be that you wish to gross up your profits by 20%, you can want to move into bigger premises, you could desire to get rid of your debt finally. By the start of a new working week you may write down on a note pad or in your diary the major chores that have to be completed this week, and reflect them on every day to check you’re making progress and hopefully wipe some of those jobs off your list.
You may put this list on your desk or in a location where you will be constantly reminded of what has to be undertaken each week. The list may be in order of priority so that the major chores at the top of your list get finished first up. All tasks not checked off this week must be taken through to next week at a higher priority, this should demand it gets done.
The next thing you could be doing is giving yourself a daily list of projects to accomplish. This will help keep you on schedule throughout the day. Again, this list will be displayed where you are able to constantly check on it and mark off the projects done. Checking off the jobs should allow you a feeling of achievement and let you reflect on how you are going during the day. Always hold to your list where possible and keep working from higher priority to the lowest priority. I know difficulties do appear through the day that can throw the whole day in the air, but you have to either deal with the situation and return to your list or if the newly arisen job isn’t as urgent as some of the items on your list then list it after these on your list and continue on doing the work you were doing.
Every aspect of work you need to complete could be written down for a couple of reasons. Firstly, so you don’t neglect to do it and secondly, so you keep each day scheduled and you achieve your daily goals. Be alert to starting items and not completing them. This would become tomorrow in a cloud of half finished jobs and can cause “list blowout”.
You will end up with a list reading a mile long and you will back out in despair and change back to old habits of working in rush during your day and achieving nothing.
Remember that each day you write out your goals and mark off everything on your list, you will be a bit closer to realizing your weekly and eventually your yearly and long term goals.
A few hints on Time Management:
Get away from time wasters, people who would only decide to chat all day, and if they work for you, set them straight, or get rid of them.
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