“Waste your money and you’re only out of money, but waste your time and you’ve lost a part of your life.” – Michael LeBoeuf
Do you usually feel overwhelmed with all the tasks included in your to-do list?
Are you struggling every single day to meet your deadlines despite putting in a lot of hard work? Do you end up double booking or forgetting appointments because you never had the time to go through your schedule first?
Were there important projects that were overlapped by the smaller “fires” that need your attention? These, my dear friend, are symptoms that your time management is going out of control.
At one glance, it might seem like all tasks listed on your list have equal importance and urgency. But with just several minutes of your time, their differences will quickly become clearer once you learned how to determine your priorities then start organizing and executing around them.
There are many cases when people are all too excited in managing their time in the hopes of allotting enough for everything that they end up neglecting the more vital things and putting more effort and time on those that are not of great importance.
Identifying and deciding what is the most essential is one skill that you can develop with a mindful practice. Every person in this world has his or her own unique set of goals, responsibilities, and duties and no single formula is working for everybody.
To have an effective setting of priorities, you need to understand first your personal dreams and roles. What are the duties of your job? What kind of commitments do you have to the community and your family? What are your long term professional and personal aspirations? How do you plan to move toward them? Once all these things have been clear to you, it will also become easier for you to define your life’s priorities and set your time to make the most out of it.
Because of all this I’ve been on a time management and prioritization drive lately. Poor time management and a lack prioritizing tasks costs money yet I think it’s also one of the easiest things to fix in your business. You just have to open your mind!
Why make running your business or life any harder than it needs to be, right?
So, what you really don’t have the time for these days is NOT GUARDING your precious time. Each minute you waste is a minute you’ll never get back. As a small business owner, I don’t always know where to go to get the best resources or to find the best answers; does any of this sound familiar? Because if it does, you really need to listen to the team at NAMS. They are some serious time hawks. They get more done in an hour than most people do all week long.
How do they do it? Well, luckily for us, they have recorded a video presentation explaining exactly that and right now we can get access for free. This was a special presentation given to their membership group so I wouldn’t be surprised to see it go away very soon so take the time to have a look before they take it down and let’s make 2018 our most productive year ever.
To watch the presentation, click here: http://warr.us/4TTAff and let’s become more productive this year 😀
