Time Management for Busy Women
Oh no, not another time management message. What's wrong? Don't have time for it? Exactly...the problem is not in the message, perhaps the problem is within you with struggling to implement vital information. I will give you a chance...will you give me a chance and hear me out for a few minutes? If not, thanks for visiting my site for 30 seconds and good luck to you in your life as you go right back to the same ole you getting the same ole results. For the rest, thanks for hanging in there. I believe this will be of great value if you read intently and then do something about what you learn.
Time Management is more about Priorities than about Appointments
Have you ever realized and actually accounted for every hour of your day? Try it for one week. Keep a journal or note pad on your desk and literally every hour document what you specifically did. It will surprise you at the end of the week. Calendering and scheduling your day is not as much about the appointments and time that things begin and end. Calendaring and planning is about deciding what your priorities should be and then evaluating at the end of the day how well you did and where you can improve. The challenge for most moms (and anyone for that matter) who are also business owners is that you have no one to hold you accountable. You often choose to have yourself hold you accountable and therefore you are too gentle on yourself when you are inefficient and ineffective. So you develop some "bad habits of highly unsuccessful people".
My family decided 45 days ago to turn off our cable and not watch any more TV. At first, I freaked. How do I not end the day with some Modern family and Jimmy Fallen? But I soon realized I saved over 10-15 hours a week that I could instead read inspiring books, work my business more, have time with my family, etc. I don't miss TV at all. Small sacrifice we are making as we start this business and make the most of it...each hour of each day!
Many of you think you are horrible with time management and that you never complete your to-do lists and that there are never enough hours in the day. But I submit that you dont have a time management issue. You work very hard each day. Your problem is that you schedule and plan 32 hours of work in a 24 hour day. No matter how efficient you are...you plan too much. Try to separate in your life the urgent from the non-urgent, the critical from the non-critical, and you will see you simply need to get rid of trying to accomplish too much of the minutia.
But Dave you just said to make the most of every hour and minute. Yes I did, I am not saying be lazier. I am saying...be smarter and stop spreading yourself so thin. It is exhausting and discouraging when you live every day of your life feeling like you never accomplish things. You say yes to everything and everyone. You are too nice and accommodating. You need to get better at saying no. You need to get better at not trying to help every single person. It is impossible. Heck, you can get so caught up in work that you neglect your family and spiritual and mental needs. May you be blessed to have a fresh outlook and take one step at the time and I promise you can get a lot of critical things in a 24 hour time frame.
Author, Dave Nabrotzky, Independent Business Owner with Mialisia.
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