Effective Time Management, Where Should You Start?
Note: This is a post I had written a while ago on the subject of Time Management. I hope some of you can still find it useful. Also it starts of sounds like a sale pitch, I’m really not trying to sell anything though!
Would you like to make more money, be more creative, buy more things, have more free time, more holidays, be successful in your home and work life?
Do you want to be a success?
Are you sure? Well, what’s stopping you?
Ok you have tried before but its not worked…
People seem to assume that successful people have to make big sacrifices. Now this can be true.
They work hard but they also play harder! They also work smarter!
The trick is to work smart and give your self the free time you need and deserve. The time you spend on relaxing, doing a hobby, spending time with friends and family and anything else you love to do.
Ok so this all sounds well and good. You even might think I’m now going to try and sell you a miracle solution. Buy my new ebook sort of rubbish you properly read everyday. But I’m not.
Like all things in life, if you want something bad enough you can achieve it! It’s up to you. I can’t make you manage your time better… It does take some work. I’m not trying to fool anyone.
It’s your life and it’s ending one-minute at a time!
What you can do NOW to make a start
Have you decided on what goals you want to achieve in your life?
That’s all I want you to do come up with three things you want to accomplish in the next 12 months. I suggested you write them down and stick them to your monitor so you can read them and adjust them over the next few days. Just let your idea’s flow and write anything down for now. Don’t worry about getting them right first time.
Goal Setting Tips
Try to think about all areas of your life.
· Career
· Family
· Money
· Physical
· Education
· Attitude
Write them as a positive statement with detail. Most goals should have a number in them. So you can measure how well your doing. Include things like a completion date, a time or perhaps if its fitness related a weight.
For Example:
Good Goal
‘In the next 12 months I want to be able to run one mile in under 9 minutes’
Bad Goal
‘I don’t want to be rubbish at running so I guess I should try to run a mile quicker than I can now.’
Start Small!
Be realist if you have nothing in the bank setting a goal to be a millionaire in 12 months time is a bit far fetched. Try something like
‘In 12 months time I will have $2,000/£1,000 extra saved in the bank.’
Do it now!
Seriously spend the next five minutes of your life thinking up and writing down three goals for the next 12 months.
Let me know how you get on. You can post them as a comment on this blog if you think that will help you.
Happy Goal Setting!
Tom LeDree
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Nice post Tom! It did sound a bit like a sales pitch, but it had quite a lot of power to it :)Have you heard of SMART targets?
Specific
Measurable
Achievable
Relevant
Time related
I wont spam up this comment, but there’s a really good PDF on SMART targets here http://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/acls-settingsmartgoalsandtargets.pdf
Again, good post Tom
awesome inspiration! I have such a hard time getting organized, I can set goals, I learned a long time ago to set only a few big priorities, and then to break those down in to smaller goals. After all there is only so many hours in the day, even if you are organized. But I haven’t gotten the hang of time management yet. This is post is definitively helpful to get better at it! Lady Rose
PS I gave you a stumble too.
Very great post. It really helps to divide your life areas into individual goals.
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