Time management is the KEY to a successful business.

We are in the New Year... So Happy New Year!

Times are probably slow for you right now; but, that allows you to get your business in order to make the coming year easier for all the new business you should be getting, if... you follow the lead of the veteran techs on our network, learn from the articles in our news letters and participate in our blog.

Just like last months article "Work it Baby", if you actually take the "time" to work it, business will start to come in more naturally. Time management has got to be worked if you want to "get the work" and probably more important, so you can get the work done.

When things are in order, conducting business is easier giving you more time to generate new business or to spend more time with your family and your own recreational activities. I think you should seriously consider family first but it takes good business practices through time management to enjoy that very important part of your life.

So what do we do to get things done in a timely manner? I mean there "is" only 24 hours in a day. If that is your question and thought, you need to consider time management. If you don't schedule your daily tasks in some sort of logical order, there could be 48 hours in a day and you still wouldn't get done what you feel needs to be.

If you are not getting what needs to be done with work in a timely manner, everything else suffers... family, friends and your own recreational time off from everything.

Here's where you can start... write down everything you do or need to do in a day on a piece of paper; don't concern yourself about the order right now just write, and don't spend more than 20 minutes on it.

After you have written down everything "you think" you need to do in a day's time, put that paper aside for a few hours or better yet come back to it the next day. When you came back to it, your thoughts will be fresh and you will be able to look at your own writing with a different perspective.

Have you ever watched a game of chess or checkers, and as a spectator, you see moves the players didn't? It is the same thing when you put aside your own work and come back to it later; you have a different perspective and you will probably find your own mistakes or omissions.

This same practice should be used when you are posting or replying to a Blog; but more on that in another article.

Edit your paper and set it aside again. What is the point in that? Believe it or not, this is a habit building process to get a routine developed that will make your life much easier.

When you return to your paper for the third time you should start arranging the order of the topics by prioritizing them in some sort of order.

Now you need to figure out what needs to be done first, how much time needs to be spent on that activity and so on for each item on your list.

Making your list and checking it twice. When you think you have it done... Yep!!! You guessed it; set it aside and go over it one more time by the next day. Don't ever put your list aside for more than a day because you will loose the routine it will become unimportant and the lesser things start taking priority.

As time goes on, priorities change and most times for a good reason... things are under control and you are finding more time than you ever thought you had.

Do you time manage? Are things under control for you? Do you get to spend quality time with your family, call on a friend, go golfing or fishing and not have to think about what you should really be doing?

If you take the very simple lesson from this article and apply it, you will get your business in order; and you will find more time to do the things that will keep your stress levels down.

Relaxation is a staple part of being successful and time management will help you do "all" that and more.

MikeM
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