Mar 6, 2009

Time Management Techniques - Discover What's Slowing You Down


In today's fast paced world we all face time limitations. The key to time management techniques is to take consistent action everyday to ensure the most efficient use of your available time. Many times what separates Successful people from the rest of the world is that, Successful people don't allow Life to get in the way of their success.

In order to make efficient use of time management techniques, you must first discover what's slowing you down. Take stock of both your personal and business lives to see what's holding you back. Make a list of all of your "time wasting activities" from both your business and personal life.

In today's uncertain economic times, many professionals work not only their traditional 9-5 jobs, but also have their own home based businesses. Under these circumstances, time management techniques are of utmost importance.

For example, if you only have 30 minutes to an hour a day to devote to your home based business, it is imperative that you utilize time management techniques to avoid common time wasting activities such as these:

1. Self doubt and negative thoughts. The surest way to fail is to believe you'll fail. You get what you focus on, so you must discard such negative influences;

2. Busy Work - rearranging papers, making lists, preparing to get started are all examples of busy work, which must be avoided at all costs;

3. Working on long term projects, instead of things you need to do today;

4. constantly checking emails. This is like watching a tea kettle boil, it doesn't make the tea boil any faster, nor does it make the email arrive any faster. Set a limit on how often you can check you emails;

5. Multitasking. Multitasking is not always a good thing. Often all you go is wind up switching back and forth between a number of things, without really getting anything done. Pick one task and get it done.

6. What I call, Tomorrowitis - don't fall prey to putting things off until tomorrow. Take consistent positive action, with a sense of urgency. If you don't feel a little uneasy that your not doing enough, then your probably not.

7. Don't watch too much TV. Yes you can watch too much TV. Ask yourself this ?. Has watching TV ever made you any money?

Learning Time Management Techniques is essential to your success in business. Examine your life and see what unnecessary time wasting activities you need to get rid of. Success leaves clues. If you study the habits of successful people, you will notice that they use of Time Management Techniques.

Here's to your Health, Wealth and Success.

John Robberson is a Successful Criminal Defense Attorney with over 15 years experience, who runs his own practice.

He is also a Team Leader for a Network Marketing Company. As such, he long ago learned the importance of using tools and techniques to effectively run his businesses. The topic of this article, is only one of the many marketing skills he has mastered over the years.

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