When you waste time, you are wasting your life. If you fail to organise time, you defeat your ability to be successful.
Success in life and the organisation of time are synonymous.
Time organisation, then, is a tremendously important element to success.
Time is the primary resource available to you for achieving what you want in life. Your talents and abilities are useless until you spend time developing them and applying them to actions required to reach your chosen goals. The knowledge and skills you acquire in school and through personal study do nothing for you until you invest your time in putting them to work.
- Do you ever feel pressured by a long list of things to do in a short period of time?
- Do you ever spend valuable time talking about a project only to find out you were talking to the wrong person?
- Do you ever drive around the city looking for an address which you haven’t bothered to locate on a city map or not bought a GPS yet?
- Do you ever lose sales because your schedule forced you to rush through a 30-minute presentation in 10 minutes?
- Do you ever discover in the middle of a report, a meeting, or a speech that some crucial piece of material you needed has been left on your desk?
- Do you ever wait a long time to see someone who finally comes out and says, “I’m sorry, I cannot see you. Please come back another day.”
- Do you ever make back-to-back appointments so far apart geographically that you cannot possibly make the second one without being completely frazzled when you arrive?
Having a time management and planning process is essential to gaining control over your valueable time. You need to spend time finding out what really your High Priority activities are verus the less important things and those that you can delegate to others.
You too can be time smart!
DAILY TIME USE ANALYSIS (For a Manager, Owner)
EXAMPLE This is just a small example of the analysis of many that we do in the process of determining what and where your needs may be to help you achieve your potential
| How I Spent My Time | Minutes Wasted and Why | |
| 7:00 | Dress. breakfast. Children ready for | |
| :30 | school | |
| 8:00 | Drop children to school | |
| :30 | Drive to office – read mail | 10 – Social conversation |
| 9:00 | Checked reports. Answered mail | 15 – Some emails I didn’t need to respiond |
| :30 | respond to today – sale sites | |
| 10:00 | Meetinq | 10 – Part of meetinq did not |
| :30 | concern me | |
| 11 :00 | Meetinq | 15 – It started 15 mins late |
| :30 | ||
| 12:00 | Lunch | 10 – Ten min late back |
| :30 | ||
| 1:00 | Planninq | |
| :30 | ||
| 2:00 | Planninq | 12 – distracted by staff |
| :30 | ||
| 3:00 | Necessary paper work | 15 – Hunted file – should ask |
| :30 | assistant | |
| 4:00 | Confer with employees | |
| :30 | Final communications for the day | |
| 5:00 | Drive home | 87 mins lost |
If you’d like to do exercise for yourself please contact me and I’ll send you through the template
Did you know that finding an extra 30 minutes per day is equivalent to finding an extra 22 eight-hour days per year? That’s equal to an entire month of effective work time!
What would you do … with one extra hour per day? … with an extra months per year?
PLANNING….PLANNING…….PLANNING………For every minute you spend planning, you save four to ten times that amount of time in execution!
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