Time Management When Working from Home

When you start a home based business, time management is an aspect of business management often overlooked or ignored.

Surely we all know some person in small business who races at it like a madman all day, never enough hours in each day, all they do is hurry and get overtaken – perhaps this person is you! Come the end of the day, when the rush settles, what have you achieved? Do you review the day and ponder “what happened to the hours, I didn’t get as much completed as I thought I could. If this reads familiar, then you might simply have an organisational and time management problem.

Successful people don’t seem to rush, they stay composed and unflustered. The difference between them and the others is they have accomplished time management.

What is time management? It is simply scheduling minutes in your day in an organised and efficient method. Before we can fully understand how to time manage our day, we first must ask ourselves what we are attempting to achieve today, this week, this year and perhaps even ten years from now. This is “Goal setting”.

The simplest process in my perspective to complete goals is to write them down. You may reflect on the goals at points to make sure that they are relevant and workable but not so simple to do that you don’t have to make the effort to succeed at them otherwise what is the meaning of the goals in the first place?

At the beginning of each new working year you should takethe time and plan what you wish to accomplish this year. It might be that you plan to raise your profits by 20%, you might would like to move into bigger premises, you perhaps plan to get rid of your debt significantly. At the start of every new working week you should write down on a note pad or in your diary the major jobs that have to be taken care of this week, and check up them at the end of each day to check you’re making progress and hopefully polish some of those projects off the list.

You should keep your list on your desk or at a spot where you could be constantly reminded of what needs to be finished each week. The list might be in order of urgency so that the most important tasks at the top of this list get taken care of earlier. All jobs not finished this week should be brought forward next week on a higher ranking, this should ensure it gets achieved.

The next thing you will be doing is having yourself a daily list of chores to do. This should assist keep you on track during the day. Again, this list should be put up where you are able to continually check on it and check off the items accomplished. Wiping off the projects is a way to give you a pride of accomplishment and let you review how you are progressing throughout the day. Always stay to your list when possible and try to keep working from the highest priority to the lower priority. I know issues do turn up over the day that sometimes throw the whole day off schedule, but you need to either take care of the situation and get back to your list or if the sudden task isn’t as serious as some of the chores on your list then list it at the bottom on the list and continue doing the project you were doing.

Every piece of work you plan to accomplish must be written down for a multiplicity of reasons. Firstly, so you don’t neglect to do it and secondly, so you have your day planned and you achieve your daily goals. Be alert to initiating chores and not completing them. This will come back tomorrow in a disaster of half finished projects and will cause “list blowout”.

You will end up with the list reading a mile long and you will give it up in despair and reverse back to those habits of getting in panic each day and finishing nothing.

Remember every day you plan your goals and write off every project on your list, you become a day closer to achieving your weekly and eventually your yearly and long term goals.

A few tips on Time Management:

Do it once and do it well, it’s frustrating reverting to the item and having to redo it.

Learn to civilly say to people when you’re busy working and that you would speak to them at a later time.

Learn to give other people work that actually don’t need your involvement.

Don’t take on wild goose chases.

Don’t waste time on phone calls that will not achieve something.

Don’t procrastinate.

Look back on your list of work to do repeatedly during your day.

“Map out your day” in the morning and plan out your daily list right when you begin work. Accomplish what you initiate.

Prioritise everything, always take care of things in their order of importance to you and the business.

Get away from time wasters, people who would merely go off to chat all day, and if they are employed by you, set them straight, or get rid of them.

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