When starting up a home business, time management is an aspect of business management that is often overlooked or ignored.
Sure enough, we all know a person in small business who races at it like a bull all day, seldom enough hours in each day, all they do is push and get worked up - maybe this person is you! To the end of the week, when the panic settles, what have you taken from it? Do you review the day and ponder “what happened to the time, I didn’t get so much completed as I planned I could. If this sounds familiar, then you might simply have an organisational and time management problem.
Successful people seldom seem to rush, they remain composed and unflustered. The difference in them and the other people is they have great time management.
What is time management? It is merely planning time in your day in an organised and efficient way. Before we can actually get how to time manage our day, we need to figure for ourselves what we are trying to do today, this week, this year and up to ten years from now. This is “Goal setting”.
The best key in my view to achieve goals is to write them down. You might think about your goals at points to ensure that they are relevant and workable but not so achievable that you don’t have to work to succeed at them otherwise what is the purpose of those goals in the first place?
From the start of each working year you can take time and reflect on what you hope to accomplish this year. It may be that you wish to gross up your profits by 20%, you perhaps decide to move into different premises, you might want to take down your debt in a susbstantial way. At the start of a new working week you may write down on a note pad or in your diary the signifcant chores that have to be achieved this week, and reflect them at the end of each day to check you’re making progress and hopefully tick some of those tasks from the list.
You should put this list on your desk or in a spot where you should be persistently reminded of what needs to be finished this week. The list should be in order of importance so that the impending projects at the top of this list get taken care of first up. Any of the jobs not finished this week will be taken forward next week at a higher priority, this should require it gets checked off.
The next thing you can be doing is having yourself a daily list of projects to accomplish. This might help keep you on track throughout each day. Again, this list could be displayed where you can persistently look at it and write off the chores completed. Marking off the chores helps to allow you a sense of achievement and let you check on how you are progressing through the day. Always stay to your list unless not possible and continue working from top priority to the lowest priority. I know loopholes do jump up during the day that sometimes throw the whole day out of whack, but you must either take care of the dilemma and then get back to your list or if the newly arisen task isn’t as urgent as some of the jobs on your list then place it for later on your list and continue on with the project you were doing.
Every item you need to finish must be written down for a number of reasons. Firstly, so you don’t put off to do it and secondly, so you have each day planned and you get your daily goals. Be sensitive to initiating chores and not finishing them. This can become tomorrow in a disaster of half finished work and will cause “list blowout”.
You will end up with the list at a mile long and you will throw it out in despair and revert back to those habits of being in panic during your day and completing nothing.
Remember for each day you write out your goals and write off every job on your list, you will be a bit closer to accomplishing your weekly and ultimately your yearly and long term goals.
A few basics on Time Management:
Don’t get in with time wasters, people that will just like to chat all day, and if they are your workers, set them straight, or get rid of them.
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