Time Management When Working from Home
When starting up a home business, time management is an area of business management that can be often overlooked or left out of the equation.
Sure enough, we all know a friend in small business who races around like a madman all day, rarely enough hours in a day, all they do is push and get worked up – is it that this person is you! At the day’s end, when the panic settles, what have you completed? Do you think about the day and ponder “what happened to the hours, I didn’t get so much completed as I intended. If this seems familiar, then you might just have an organisational and time management problem.
Successful people don’t appear to rush, they always remain composed and unflustered. The difference from them and the others is they have exceptional time management.
What is time management? It is simply planning minutes in your day in an organised and efficient method. Before we can actually get how to time manage our day, we need to figure for ourselves what we are hoping to master today, this week, this year and possibly even ten years from now. This is “Goal setting”.
The top process in my opinion to accomplish goals is to write them down. You can review these goals at times to feel that they are meaningful and workable but not so simple to do that you don’t need to try hard to succeed at them otherwise what is the point of the goals in the first place?
From the start of every working year you can pause and think about what you desire to get this year. It can be that you need to gross up your profits by 20%, you perhaps want to move into different premises, you might hope to take away from your debt as much as possible. From the beginning of every new working week you can write down on a note pad or in your diary the large jobs that must to be taken care of this week, and reflect them on every day to be sure that you’re making progress and hopefully wipe some of your tasks from your list.
You can have the list on your desk or in a place where you should be continually reminded of what needs to be achieved throughout the week. This list should be in order of priority so that the key projects at the top of the list get completed first up. All the tasks not done this week should be carried forward next week at a higher ranking, this should demand it gets finalised.
The next thing you should be doing is creating a daily list of projects to achieve. This might help keep you focused during each day. Again, this list can be displayed where you are able to constantly look at it and mark off the chores completed. Finishing off the chores helps to allow you a feeling of completion and let you know how you are progressing through the day. Always adhere to this list when possible and try to keep working from the highest priority to the lesser priority. I know problems can show up over the day that may throw the whole day up, but you have to either take on the problem and then return to the list or if the unplanned job isn’t as serious as some of the jobs on your list then place it later on the list and continue doing the work you were doing.
Each chore you need to get done must be written down for a couple of reasons. Firstly, so you don’t put off to do it and secondly, so you keep the day planned and you finish your daily goals. Be careful of initiating tasks and not finishing them. This can come back tomorrow in a mess of incomplete tasks and can cause “list blowout”.
You will end up with your list being a mile long and you will give up in despair and revert back to bad habits of getting in a hurry during the day and achieving nothing.
Remember that each day you set your goals and check off all the chores on your list, you will get a little bit closer to completing your weekly and soon your yearly and long term goals.
A few essentials on Time Management:
Do it once and do it well, it’s pointless returning to the chore and needing to redo it.
Learn to nicely inform people when you’re working and that you would return to them later.
Learn to give other people items that truly don’t demand your direct involvement.
Don’t take on wild goose chases.
Don’t use up time with phone calls that won’t assist with something.
Don’t procrastinate.
Look at your list of tasks to do regularly throughout your day.
“Map out your day” in the shower and make out your daily list right when you begin work. Achieve what you list.
Prioritise everything, always begin things in their order of importance to you and the work.
Avoid time wasters, people that will just decide to chat all day, and if they work for you, set them straight, or get rid of them.
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