My #1 Secret to Time Management... and it's FREE
By Jill Koenig
Author, Coach, Motivational Speaker
If you are seeking to achieve greatness in any area of your life, the two critical subjects you must strive to improve on are Goal Setting and Time Management. Those two subjects should be studied as much as or more than any other key component of your business.
You cannot succeed in one without also succeeding in the other.
When you feel overwhelmed, (we have all felt that way at one time or another), it's time to take a closer look at what you are spending your time on from the minute you wake up, to the minute you fall asleep.
For entrepreneurs, this is critical because if you're not focusing your time and attention on your key result areas, there won't be many positive results occurring.
Most people want a business of their own so they can set their own hours and work whenever they want; sleeping in, taking days off whenever they want, etc. What we know about business is that the entrepreneur's livelihood and success are dependent on being extremely disciplined and consistent, especially when your business is in it's infancy. You are responsible for your own success.
Your time management habits are either ensuring your success or leading you to failure.
Let me get more specific.
Your time management habits are either leading you towards reaching your goals, or leading you away from reaching your goals.
Are you directing your day?
Or is the day and it's circumstances directing you?
Your time habits are worthy of a closer look... right now. Not tomorrow, but today.
The #1 habit for effectiveness is to become conscious of where you are investing your time... all day long. Everyday.
"Effective entrepreneurs do not start with their tasks. They start with their time. And they do not start out planning. THEY START BY FINDING OUT WHERE THEIR TIME ACTUALLY GOES. Then they attempt to manage their time and to cut back on unproductive usages of their time." -Peter Drucker
This strategy is covered in TheTimeCommandments! Time Management Success System. I teach in great detail how to:
1) Define your goals
2) Direct your time according to your goals and
3) Monitor your time and measure your results
In order to grow your business, you must become more efficient than you are right now.
The only way to become more efficient is to monitor your time and measure your results.
If you have employees, you must also teach this or hire a coach to teach this to them.
Here is my #1 Secret to Time Management and increasing efficiency:
Keep a Time Log.
The best way to improve your Time Management is to monitor your time and keep a time log.
Keeping a Time Log means documenting what you are doing on a given day and logging what you are spending your time on at regularly scheduled, predetermined intervals. You can use a notebook and set your watch or a timer to beep every 15 minutes and write down what you are doing, or you can use other FREE tools like this:
http://www.crypto-central.com/html/timekeeper.html
You cannot improve what you don't measure.
Every entrepreneur has a choice.
Either pay the price of discipline or pay the price of regret.
Believe me, it is much easier to pay the price of discipline.
And it is easier to go fast than to go slow.
After you have recorded your activities for the day in your time log, ask yourself these questions:
Did the investment of my time today lead me towards my goals or away from my goals?
If a camera crew followed me around all day today, and broadcast my habits and practices, would I be proud or would I be embarrassed?
Am I a shining example of efficiency or a warning of what not to do?
If I had a boss looking over my shoulder, would I still have a job or would I be fired?
Are my actions and investments of time causing the results I am seeking?
If not, what changes do I need to make?
We cannot ignore the universal laws of cause and effect and expect to be successful.
If your results are not currently what you want them to be, your causes are in need of adjustment. Examine your causes, which are where you are investing your time.
I recommend keeping a time log:
Daily if you are struggling or feeling overwhelmed.
Then weekly until your bad time habits are broken.
Then biweekly.
Ask yourself this question all day long:
Is this the best use of my time right now?
Keeping a time log is free. And it's easy to do. And it will inevitably shine a spotlight on the areas that you need to improve on.
In my new audio program, I reveal the Top 10 Time Management Strategies for achieving your goals. The program is designed to be listened to every day if your desire is to become a Results Seeking Time Management Super Achiever:
http://www.TheTimeCommandments.com
If you are serious about success...
Do it now...
Live Your Dreams,
Jill Koenig
Jill Koenig is America's Top Goal Strategist. She is an expert
on the subjects of Goal Setting, Time Management and Business
Success. She publishes the world's largest Goal Newsletter at
http://www.GoalGuru.com
Copyright 2006 GoalGuru.com
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Author, Coach, Motivational Speaker
If you are seeking to achieve greatness in any area of your life, the two critical subjects you must strive to improve on are Goal Setting and Time Management. Those two subjects should be studied as much as or more than any other key component of your business.
You cannot succeed in one without also succeeding in the other.
When you feel overwhelmed, (we have all felt that way at one time or another), it's time to take a closer look at what you are spending your time on from the minute you wake up, to the minute you fall asleep.
For entrepreneurs, this is critical because if you're not focusing your time and attention on your key result areas, there won't be many positive results occurring.
Most people want a business of their own so they can set their own hours and work whenever they want; sleeping in, taking days off whenever they want, etc. What we know about business is that the entrepreneur's livelihood and success are dependent on being extremely disciplined and consistent, especially when your business is in it's infancy. You are responsible for your own success.
Your time management habits are either ensuring your success or leading you to failure.
Let me get more specific.
Your time management habits are either leading you towards reaching your goals, or leading you away from reaching your goals.
Are you directing your day?
Or is the day and it's circumstances directing you?
Your time habits are worthy of a closer look... right now. Not tomorrow, but today.
The #1 habit for effectiveness is to become conscious of where you are investing your time... all day long. Everyday.
"Effective entrepreneurs do not start with their tasks. They start with their time. And they do not start out planning. THEY START BY FINDING OUT WHERE THEIR TIME ACTUALLY GOES. Then they attempt to manage their time and to cut back on unproductive usages of their time." -Peter Drucker
This strategy is covered in TheTimeCommandments! Time Management Success System. I teach in great detail how to:
1) Define your goals
2) Direct your time according to your goals and
3) Monitor your time and measure your results
In order to grow your business, you must become more efficient than you are right now.
The only way to become more efficient is to monitor your time and measure your results.
If you have employees, you must also teach this or hire a coach to teach this to them.
Here is my #1 Secret to Time Management and increasing efficiency:
Keep a Time Log.
The best way to improve your Time Management is to monitor your time and keep a time log.
Keeping a Time Log means documenting what you are doing on a given day and logging what you are spending your time on at regularly scheduled, predetermined intervals. You can use a notebook and set your watch or a timer to beep every 15 minutes and write down what you are doing, or you can use other FREE tools like this:
http://www.crypto-central.com/html/timekeeper.html
You cannot improve what you don't measure.
Every entrepreneur has a choice.
Either pay the price of discipline or pay the price of regret.
Believe me, it is much easier to pay the price of discipline.
And it is easier to go fast than to go slow.
After you have recorded your activities for the day in your time log, ask yourself these questions:
Did the investment of my time today lead me towards my goals or away from my goals?
If a camera crew followed me around all day today, and broadcast my habits and practices, would I be proud or would I be embarrassed?
Am I a shining example of efficiency or a warning of what not to do?
If I had a boss looking over my shoulder, would I still have a job or would I be fired?
Are my actions and investments of time causing the results I am seeking?
If not, what changes do I need to make?
We cannot ignore the universal laws of cause and effect and expect to be successful.
If your results are not currently what you want them to be, your causes are in need of adjustment. Examine your causes, which are where you are investing your time.
I recommend keeping a time log:
Daily if you are struggling or feeling overwhelmed.
Then weekly until your bad time habits are broken.
Then biweekly.
Ask yourself this question all day long:
Is this the best use of my time right now?
Keeping a time log is free. And it's easy to do. And it will inevitably shine a spotlight on the areas that you need to improve on.
In my new audio program, I reveal the Top 10 Time Management Strategies for achieving your goals. The program is designed to be listened to every day if your desire is to become a Results Seeking Time Management Super Achiever:
http://www.TheTimeCommandments.com
If you are serious about success...
Do it now...
Live Your Dreams,
Jill Koenig
Jill Koenig is America's Top Goal Strategist. She is an expert
on the subjects of Goal Setting, Time Management and Business
Success. She publishes the world's largest Goal Newsletter at
http://www.GoalGuru.com
Copyright 2006 GoalGuru.com
***********
Need fresh, free content for your web site or ezine?
You are welcome to reprint this article on your web site or in
your ezine. We simply ask that you include our byline and let
us know where the article will be appearing.
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