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Time Management Tips: A Key to Your Success

By: Cheryl A. Clausen

You're either directly responsible or overseeing all functions, and you're overwhelmed by the details. Rather than focusing on the important you seem to fight the fires and at the end of the day you aren't sure if you've really invested your time in the best way. Long-term your time management skills will either make you or break you, so it's time to improve those skills before it's too late. When you're solely responsible for everything in your business it's easy to get caught up in firefighting and micro-managing. It's actually easier to respond to interruptions and crisis than it is to focus on the important. But that's a success killing habit that you'll want to break now.

Clean the slate by setting aside time outside of your normal business hours to de-clutter and sort through all the stuff you've allowed to build up. Go through the piles of paperwork you have in and under your desk that needs to be sorted through to determine relevance. Quickly sort through this stuff creating piles or boxes for: needs action now, needs action at some point, reference, and throw away.

The reason you have poor time management skills is because you aren't sure what actions you should be taking at any given moment. Gather up all the stuff in your needs action now pile and identify all the actions you need to take making one list so you have everything in one place. When you have to search through files, folders, your calendar, and your computer to find what you're supposed to be taking action on you forget, and you just won't take the time to hunt through everything.

Taking the right actions on the right things enables you to accomplish more than you think possible now. Use your list of actions to prioritize, delegate, or dump each action. The more committed you are to dumping the things you shouldn't be doing the less stress you'll have and the more productive you'll be.

Develop procedures for routine tasks so you can delegate those tasks to someone else and free yourself up to actually run your business. Realize there are a number of opportunities to outsource tasks to virtual assistants, employees, or even volunteers. There are some senior citizen groups that want activities that members can work on together.

There is a lot of stuff left on your list that needs to be prioritized, but you only need to choose the three most important things to do each day. There's no need to prioritize the whole list because you're just committing to taking action one day at a time. As you accomplish tasks and check them off your list you'll find your self-confidence growing and your desired end result becoming a reality. It's a whole lot easier to decide on the individual daily actions when you understand the big picture that you want to accomplish. Choose the actions you'll take each day, based on their alignment with what you're trying to accomplish.

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