When you start out in a home business, time management is an area of business management that is overlooked or left out of the equation.
We all know someone in small business who races at it like a chicken with its head cut off all day, rarely enough hours in a day, all they do is push and get overloaded - perhaps this person is you! By the end of the day, when the panic settles, what have you done? Do you replay the day and wonder “what happened to the time, I didn’t get so much finished as I planned I could. If this sounds familiar, then you may just have an organisational and time management problem.
Successful people do not seem to rush, they are always composed and unflustered. The difference from them and other people is they command time management.
What is time management? It is merely planning the clock in your day in an organised and efficient process. Before we can actually understand how to time manage our day, we need to ask ourselves what we are attempting to master today, this week, this year and possibly even ten years from now. This is “Goal setting”.
The easiest process in my opinion to complete goals is to write them down. You can think about all your goals at times to know that they are purposeful and achievable but not so simple to do that you don’t have to put in the work to achieve them otherwise what is the reason of the goals in the first place?
At the start of a working year you could pause and plan what you want to get this year. It may be that you desire to raise your profits by 20%, you can desire to move into different premises, you perhaps hope to reduce your debt substantially. At the first day of each working week you should write down on a note pad or in your diary the large chores that have to be taken care of this week, and check up them every day to ensure that you’re making progress and hopefully polish some of the jobs off your list.
You can have your list on your desk or in a point where you will be continually reminded of what must be achieved each week. The list may be in order of necessity so that the most important work at the top of the list get completed first up. Any of the chores not checked off this week should be taken onto next week on a higher importance, this will ensure it gets achieved.
The next thing you could be doing is creating a daily list of chores to accomplish. This may assist keep you organised each day. Again, this list might be displayed where you can constantly look back to it and check off the chores accomplished. Finishing off the chores helps to give you a pride of a job well done and let you reflect on how you are working over the day. Always hold to your list where possible and keep working from top priority to the lesser priority. I know difficulties can come up throughout the day that sometimes throw the whole day out of whack, but you must either deal with the crisis and get back on to the list or if the unplanned situation isn’t as important as some of the items on your list then place it for later on your list and continue doing the item you were doing.
Every task you plan to finish needs to be written down for a couple of reasons. Firstly, so you don’t forget to do it and secondly, so you keep your day outlined and you realise your daily goals. Be wary of starting chores and not finishing them. This could come back tomorrow in a mess of half baked jobs and could cause “list blowout”.
You will end up with a list at a mile long and you will back out in despair and reverse back to those habits of running around in confusion during your day and completing nothing.
Remember each day you set your goals and polish off every item on your list, you will get a day closer to reaching your weekly and ultimately your yearly and long term goals.
A few basics on Time Management:
Stay away from time wasters, people that will simply decide to chat all day, and if they are your workers, set them straight, or get rid of them.
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