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When starting up a home business, time management is an aspect of business management that is overlooked or neglected.

Sure enough, everybody knows a person in small business who races about like a mad dog all day, never enough hours in every day, all they do is push and get overloaded - maybe this person is you! Come the end of the day, when the dust settles, what have you gotten out of it? Do you think about the day and realise “what happened to the time, I didn’t get so much finished as I hoped. If this is familiar, then you might just have an organisational and time management problem.

Successful people rarely appear to rush, they remain composed and unflustered. The difference with them and other people is they achieve time management.

What is time management? It is just allocating hours in your day in an organised and efficient process. Before we can actually understand how to time manage our day, we first need to ask ourselves what we are trying to accomplish today, this week, this year and perhaps ten years from now. This is “Goal setting”.

The top way in my perspective to achieve goals is to write them down. You could review your goals sometimes to feel that they are purposeful and possible but not so easy to do that you don’t have to try to succeed at them otherwise what is the purpose of those goals in the first place?

From the beginning of each working year you could sit and plan what you want to accomplish this year. It could be that you want to enlarge your profits by 20%, you can desire to move into other premises, you might desire to take down your debt as much as possible. At the first day of a new working week you might write down on a note pad or in your diary the signifcant tasks that must to be achieved this week, and look back to them on each day to make sure that you’re making progress and hopefully mark some of your jobs off your list.

You should have the list on your desk or in a spot where you can be constantly reminded of what needs to be undertaken each week. The list should be in order of importance so that the impending jobs at the top of the list get accomplished early. All the chores not done this week should be put through to next week at a higher urgency, this will demand it gets taken care of.

The next thing you can be doing is giving yourself a daily list of tasks to do. This can help keep you organised in the day. Again, this list should be put up where you can constantly refer to it and wipe off the chores finalised. Wiping off the items helps give you a sense of success and remind you how you are going over the day. Always adhere to this list when possible and try to keep working from high priority to the lower priority. I know difficulties could jump up through the day that can throw the whole day in the air, but you have to either take on the situation and get back on to the list or if the newly arisen problem isn’t as important as some of the projects on the list then place it for later on your list and continue with the chore you were doing.

Each project you have to get done should be written down for a couple of reasons. Firstly, so you don’t neglect to do it and secondly, so you have the day organised and you achieve your daily goals. Be sensitive to initiating jobs and not finishing them. This will show up tomorrow in a mushroom cloud of incomplete tasks and will cause “list blowout”.

You will end up with the list being a mile long and you will give up in despair and go back to old habits of getting yourself in rush every day and accomplishing nothing.

Remember every day you plan your goals and polish off all the jobs on your list, you will get a bit closer to achieving your weekly and soon your yearly and long term goals.

A few basics on Time Management:

• Do it once and do it well, it’s frustrating returning to the project and having to redo it.
• Learn to politely inform people when you’re busy and that you will return to them at a later time.
• Learn to pass out items that truly don’t need your direct participation.
• Don’t take on wild goose chases.
• Don’t fizzle away time by phone calls that cannot achieve something.
• Don’t procrastinate.
• Look back to your list of things to do often during your day.
• “Map out your day” in the morning and make out your daily list as soon as you get to work. Accomplish what you list.
• Prioritise all your work, always take care of chores in their order of importance to you and the customers.

Avoid time wasters, people who would simply like to chat all day, and if they are your employees, set them straight, or get rid of them.

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