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April 07, 2009
Tips for putting more time in your day
Here a few suggestions if you are running an online business and feel like you need more time in your day:
--Organize your days into periods of "positive habit" rather than "negative habit."
--Perhaps you want to add new content to your Web site but never feel you have any time to write.
SOLUTION: Schedule Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays for 2 hours of writing between 9AM and 11AM.
This means that for 6 hours a week you'll be focused on creating that new content. No answering e-mail, no interruptions or phone calls. Get organized and stay focused. Put away anything that distracts you from being productive.
--Perhaps you want to work on issues concerning your Web site to increase it's performance. Same solution - schedule time out for this to be done. During your site upgrade time, shut off your e-mail, stay focused. Do whatever it takes to have your time organized.
--Examine your hours - can anything be improved by time-shifting?
For errands out of the office can you reorganize to do a number of things while you are out.
--Can you organize the days of your week better?
--Assign certain large tasks to certain days of the week - so you develop positive multitasking habits.
--Examine and list all of your non-favorite but important tasks
(that need to be done consistently to be successful - and assign weekly or monthly time slots to them)
Example - Cold Calling, Bookkeeping, etc.
--Look at ways to reduce your time answering e-mail and fooling with Spam
--Avoid perfectionism.
When you focus on perfection, you will only end up skipping them.
--If you didn’t do something on time that you assigned yourself, try to reschedule it instead of feeling guilty. Feeling guilty is a waste of time.
--Try to avoid thinking of work issues on weekends. You need some down time.
Remember, that it sometimes seems like years of work to better our daily habits, but with a serious effort and 3 weeks of practice, you can make changes that will stick with you.
I'll close with a thought for the day which is a quote from William Arthur Ward:
"Each of us will one day be judged by our standard of life -- not by our standard of living; by our measure of giving -- not by our measure of wealth; by our simple goodness -- not by our seeming greatness."
William Arthur Ward quotes
(American dedicated scholar, author, editor, pastor and teacher)
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Posted by John at April 7, 2009 05:06 PM