Plan Ahead
Stephanie Winston’s Getting Organized is another source of time tips. Gather your tools, equipment, research or whatever you need to complete a project before you start, Winston recommends. You lose both time and momentum if you have to keep stopping to search for something necessary to completion.
Learn to use little bits of unexpected time, too. Carry a memo pad and a book you want to read with you at all times to take advantage of those minutes when your doctor keeps you waiting or your lunch date is stuck in traffic. In fact, give up waiting time altogether by using these gifts of time to create or learn.
Work Smarter
If your work area is a mess, start the new year by enlisting the aid of a professional organizer who can help you put things in order. Clutter and messy work areas cause confusion and irritability. Give yourself the advantage of working in an orderly environment.
Know your own energy patterns and schedule creative work when your energy is highest leaving routine chores for your less energetic moments.
Become a consolidator. Return all phone calls during a specific time period rather than responding to each one. Combine errands. Keep file folders you use most often at your fingertips.
While some people schedule every moment of their life, it makes more sense to use a diary or calendar to make dates with yourself alongside necessary appointments and deadlines.
Super Smart
One of the very best things you can do is create at least one profit center that requires a minimum of your time and attention. While the popular term for this is passive income, it’s a term that sounds slothful to me. The concept is brilliant, however. Whether it’s collecting royalties on intellectual property you’ve created, rental income from property that you own, or affiliate income from recommending someone else’s products on your Web site, the idea is to have an income source that’s nearly automatic. It’s as close as we can get to buying time.
“People assume that they can find many ways to save time,” says management expert Merrill Douglass. “This is an incorrect assumption for it is only when you focus on spending time that you can begin to use your time effectively.” That’s the smartest tip of all.
“… it is only when you focus on spending time that you can begin to use your time effectively.”
This is also true for money. It is when you plan on spending money that you find ways to attract and motivation to make it.
Passive income can also come from building a network marketing business of consumers of products that can be reordered monthly on an autoship program … just a thought