When you start up a from-home business, time management is an aspect of business management that can be overlooked or neglected.
Everybody knows some person in small business who races around like a chicken with its head cut off all day, never enough hours in their day, all they do is push and get worked up - maybe this person is you! Come the day’s end, when the pace settles, what have you accomplished? Do you replay the day and realise “what happened to the hours, I didn’t get as much done as I thought I would. If this sounds familiar, then you might simply have an organisational and time management problem.
Successful people don’t ever seem to rush, they stay composed and unflustered. The difference with them and the other people is they achieve time management.
What is time management? It is merely arranging minutes in your day in an organised and efficient scheme. Before we can actually get how to time manage our day, we first must decide for ourselves what we are hoping to achieve today, this week, this year and possibly even ten years from now. This is “Goal setting”.
The best process in my opinion to achieve goals is to write them down. You could reflect on your goals at points to ensure that they are purposeful and realisable but not so easy that you don’t have to try to achieve them otherwise what is the meaning of any goals in the first place?
From the start of every new working year you should take time and think about what you hope to complete this year. It might be that you wish to raise your profits by 20%, you may would like to move into better premises, you might hope to take away from your debt as much as possible. At the first day of every new working week you should write down on a note pad or in your diary the signifcant tasks that must to be finalised this week, and look back to them at the end of every day to know you’re making progress and hopefully polish some of your jobs off your list.
You could have your list on your desk or in a location where you will be repeatedly reminded of what must be undertaken this week. The list should be in order of urgency so that the key chores at the top of your list get done early. All the work not accomplished this week should be put forward next week on a higher urgency, this will ensure it gets ticked off.
The next thing you could be doing is writing a daily list of jobs to get done. This can help keep you organised on each day. Again, this list can be placed where you are able to continually look back to it and tick off the tasks completed. Ticking off the jobs could give you a feeling of achievement and let you review how you are going throughout the day. Always stay to your list where possible and try to keep working from top priority to low priority. I know problems do jump up throughout the day that can throw the whole day up, but you have to either take care of the problem and get back on to your list or if the newly arisen dilemma isn’t as time sensitive as some of the items on the list then target it for later on your list and continue on doing the work you were doing.
Each task you plan to do must be written down for a number of reasons. Firstly, so you don’t forget to do it and secondly, so you have each day scheduled and you complete your daily goals. Be careful of starting jobs and not completing them. This may come back 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 it up in despair and reverse back to bad habits of getting in confusion during your day and finishing nothing.
Remember that each day you write out your goals and tick off every chore on your list, you get a little closer to polishing off your weekly and ultimately your yearly and long term goals.
A few pointers on Time Management:
Do it once and do it well, it’s pointless returning to the chore and having to redo it.
Learn to politely communicate to people when you’re working and that you will get back to them at a later time.
Learn to give other people jobs that actually don’t demand your direct participation.
Don’t make off on wild goose chases.
Don’t use up time by phone calls that won’t do something.
Don’t procrastinate.
Check back to your list of jobs to do frequently during the day.
“Map out your day” in the shower and list out your daily list when you get to work. Accomplish what you initiate.
Prioritise all your work, always begin chores in their order of urgency to you and your work.
Get away from time wasters, people who simply go off to chat all day, and if they are your employees, set them straight, or get rid of them.
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