Time Management and Working from Home
When you start a from-home business, time management is an area of business management that is usually overlooked or ignored.
We all know someone in small business who races about like a bull all day, rarely enough hours in every day, all they do is rush and get overwhelmed - maybe this person is you! To the end of the week, when the dust settles, what have you done? Do you review the day and realise “what happened to the time, I didn’t get as much completed as I hoped I could. If this seems familiar, then you may have an organisational and time management problem.
Successful people never seem to rush, they are composed and unflustered. The difference with them and other people is they have great time management.
What is time management? It is merely planning time in your day in an organised and efficient method. Before we can truly get how to time manage our day, we first must decide for ourselves what we are attempting to complete today, this week, this year and even up to ten years from now. This is “Goal setting”.
The easiest process in my perspective to take on goals is to write them down. You should review your goals sometimes to know that they are relevant and realisable but not so easy to do that you don’t need to put in the hard work to complete them otherwise what is the reason of your goals in the first place?
At the beginning of each new working year you could sit and reflect on what you desire to complete this year. It can be that you hope to enlarge your profits by 20%, you may desire to move into better premises, you could plan to take down your debt as much as possible. From the first day of a new working week you should write down on a note pad or in your diary the large projects that need to be done this week, and check up them at the end of each day to know you’re making progress and hopefully check some of those jobs from the list.
You might hold this list on your desk or on a point where you could be persistently reminded of what has to be undertaken this week. This list might be in order of priority so that the impending work at the top of the list get achieved first. Any projects not completed this week will be taken through to next week on a higher ranking, this will make sure it gets completed.
The next thing you could be doing is creating a daily list of tasks to do. This will help keep you focused during each day. Again, this list can be placed where you are able to constantly look at it and tick off the projects finished. Ticking off the projects will allow you a feeling of success and let you review how you are moving through the day. Always stick to this list unless not possible and keep working from top priority to the lowest priority. I know things sometimes come up over the day that sometimes throw the whole day out of whack, but you need to either take on the dilemma and get back on to your list or if the newly arisen dilemma isn’t as important as some of the tasks on the list then list it lower on your list and continue doing the work you were doing.
Every job you plan to finish can be written down for a multiplicity of reasons. Firstly, so you don’t put off to do it and secondly, so you keep each day organised and you realise your daily goals. Be sensitive to initiating chores and not finishing them. This might turn tomorrow in a disaster of half baked tasks and could cause “list blowout”.
You will end up with the list at a mile long and you will give it up in despair and reverse back to old habits of getting in panic during your day and realizing nothing.
Remember each day you plan your goals and polish off all the projects on your list, you get a little closer to completing your weekly and eventually your yearly and long term goals.
A few hints on Time Management:
* Do it once and do it well, it’s fruitless going back to the job and needing to redo it.
* Learn to simply communicate to people when you’re busy working and that you would get back to them later.
* Learn to delegate chores that actually don’t need your involvement.
* Don’t go on wild goose chases.
* Don’t spend time by phone calls that won’t accomplish something.
* Don’t procrastinate.
* Refer to your list of chores to do repeatedly during the day.
* “Map out your day” in the shower and write out your daily list as soon as you arrive at work. Achieve what you begin.
* Prioritise all your tasks, always keep things in their order of importance to you and your clients.
Don’t get in with time wasters, people that only like to chat all day, and if they work for you, set them straight, or get rid of them.
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