Time Management When Working from Home
When you start up a home based business, time management is an area of business management that can be frequently overlooked or neglected.
We all know someone in small business who races about like a chicken with its head cut off all day, without enough hours in the day, all they do is push and get worked up - is it that this person is you! To the end of the week, when the panic settles, what have you achieved? Do you reflect on the day and ponder “what happened to the day, I didn’t get as much completed as I thought I would. If this feels familiar, then you might simply have an organisational and time management problem.
Successful people seldom seem to rush, they stay composed and unflustered. The difference from them and everybody else is they possess time management.
What is time management? It is just planning hours in your day in an organised and efficient way. Before we can really get how to time manage our day, we need to figure for ourselves what we are hoping to accomplish today, this week, this year and possibly ten years from now. This is “Goal setting”.
The top process in my perspective to complete goals is to write them down. You should think about all your goals at times to make sure that they are appropriate and workable but not so achievable that you don’t need to work to succeed at them otherwise what is the reason of any goals in the first place?
From the beginning of each new working year you could take time and reflect on what you want to achieve this year. It can be that you hope to enlarge your profits by 20%, you might decide to move into larger premises, you can plan to get rid of your debt once and for all. By the first day of a new working week you should write down on a note pad or in your diary the signifcant jobs that have to be done this week, and review them each day to know you’re making progress and hopefully check some of the jobs from your list.
You should keep this list on your desk or in a point where you could be persistently reminded of what needs to be finalised each week. This list might be in order of importance so that the major jobs at the top of your list get accomplished first up. Any tasks not accomplished this week need to be brought through to next week on a higher ranking, this should ensure it gets ticked off.
The next thing you can be doing is having yourself a daily list of tasks to get done. This should assist keep you on schedule in the day. Again, this list could be put where you can continually look back to it and tick off the jobs completed. Wiping off the items helps to give you a feeling of success and let you review how you are progressing over the day. Always adhere to your list unless not possible and continue working from top priority to the lowest priority. I know wormholes do appear during the day that sometimes throw the whole day out, but you have to either take on the situation and get back on to your list or if the new problem isn’t as urgent as some of the jobs on the list then list it for later on your list and continue doing the task you were doing.
Each project you need to get done should be written down for a few reasons. Firstly, so you don’t forget to do it and secondly, so you keep the day outlined and you realise your daily goals. Be alert to initiating tasks and not finishing them. This might come back tomorrow in a mess of not completed chores and can cause “list blowout”.
You will end up with your list at a mile long and you will throw it up in despair and go back to bad habits of getting in panic every day and completing nothing.
Remember that each day you accomplish your goals and mark off every project on your list, you will get a bit closer to succeeding in your weekly and finally your yearly and long term goals.
A few tips on Time Management:
- Do it once and do it well, it’s wasteful coming back to the work and having to redo it.
- Learn to civilly tell people when you’re too busy and that you will get back to them later.
- Learn to give out work that truly don’t require your participation.
- Don’t go on wild goose chases.
- Don’t fizzle away time on phone calls that won’t assist with something.
- Don’t procrastinate.
- Refer to your list of chores to do often through the day.
- “Map out your day” in the shower and make out your daily list right when you arrive at work. Finish what you initiate.
- Prioritise as a matter of habit, always start jobs in their order of necessity to you and the customers.
Don’t get in with time wasters, people who merely decide to chat all day, and if they work for you, set them straight, or get rid of them.
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