Discover 7 Simple Time Management Tips to Help You Shift Your Productivity Into Overdrive

Many of us run around with a seemingly endlessimprove your time management skills. Follow a
supply of work that we haven't yet gotten to. Timevacation schedule for email reading ... especially when
management tips are important to everyone. Theyyou have big projects to do. Email reading has
are critically important to the home based businessbecome a phenomenal time waster. Scan for crucial
entrepreneur. It can, in fact, mean the differenceemails and let the other just sit there. Only read and
between the success or failure of your work atrespond to the essential emails until you get "to do
home enterprise.list" down to a manageable size.
I'm an author, educational consultant, wife, mother of3. Stop Talking on the Phone So Much. Limit your
five children, college admissions consultant, and tutortelephone conversations. If you must talk on the
who has operated several work at home businesses,telephone, please reduce the number of minutes you
so I know a bit about successful ways to improvetalk. Be like a lawyer and set a time. Talk up to the
your time management skills. I may be one of thespecified time and no longer.
original multi-taskers, so I'll let you in on my favorite4. Reduce TV watching time. Busy people cannot
time-management activities.afford to watch too much TV. I used to joke that I
When we talk about time management, we are reallycould spend an hour watching "Lifestyles of the Rich
talking about the management of the tasks thatand Famous" or I could spend that hour building my
comprise our day. We use all manner of tools to helpbusiness so that later on I could live "Lifestyles of the
us become more organized and productive. WeRich and Famous". Would you rather watch it or live
create schedules. We establish priorities. We designit?
contact management systems. We use planners.5. Limit Your Shopping Trips. Here's another time
Well, I'm going to give you some low-tech methodsmanagement tip. Schedule your errands so that you
you can implement to better control the tasks youcan go to several stores in one outing. This saves
have to complete so that you can increase thetime, gas, and money.
productivity and profitability of your work at home6. Reduce time spent on social media sites. Chatting
business. Most of us can accomplish a great deal ifon social media sites is fun and addictive. Browse
we can add as little as an extra hour a day to ouryour favorite sites for a few minutes everyday.
productive time. I'm going to show you how you canRespond to the few items that you must deal with.
gain even more than an hour. So here it is - 7 waysThen go on with your work.
to improve your time management skills.7. Outsource. Of these seven simple time
management tips, this is probably the most difficult
1. Sleep Less. - According to a survey of 18 membersto implement. It is however, probably the best time
of the Organization for Economic Cooperation andsaver.
Development (OECD), the average American sleepsDelegate the tasks that are repetitive - high tech and
8.5 hours per day. The average healthy adult onlylow touch - if they cannot be automated. Delegate
requires 7-8 hours of sleep per 24-hour cycle. If weany task that does not require your personal
simply slept less, we could gain an hour of productiveattention. Delegate the work that you just can't
time. Some of our most effective citizens get by onseem to get to.
much less sleep. I understand that some of the mostSo, there you have it: 7 simple time management tips
productive people in the world, most notably:to help you shift your productivity into
President Obama, Tiger Woods, and Bill Gates alloverdrive.You've gained an extra hour or more of
function quite well on 5 hours sleep a night.productive time. Now you can relax and kick back
2. Limit your email reading. This is another way towith your special someone. You've earned it!