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When you start a from-home business, time management is an element of business management often overlooked or neglected.

Sure enough, we all know a friend in small business who races about like a mad dog all day, seldom enough hours in the day, all they do is push and get overwhelmed - perhaps this person is you! To the end of the day, when the rush settles, what have you gotten out of it? Do you review the day and think “what happened to the time, I didn’t get so much finished as I intended to do. If this is familiar, then you may just have an organisational and time management problem.

Successful people rarely seem to rush, they are composed and unflustered. The difference with them and everybody else is they possess time management.

What is time management? It is merely scheduling minutes in your day in an organised and efficient scheme. Before we can truly get how to time manage our day, we need to ask ourselves what we are aiming to accomplish today, this week, this year and as far as ten years from now. This is “Goal setting”.

The best key in my opinion to take on goals is to write them down. You might think about the goals from time to time to ensure that they are relevant and workable but not so achievable that you don’t need to put in the hard work to succeed at them otherwise what is the reason of the goals in the first place?

At the beginning of every working year you can sit down and plan what you desire to complete this year. It can be that you wish to enlarge your profits by 20%, you can desire to move into different premises, you could desire to take away from your debt significantly. At the first day of every working week you can write down on a note pad or in your diary the important tasks that must to be taken care of this week, and look back to them at every day to know that you’re making progress and hopefully wipe some of those chores off your list.

You may place the list on your desk or in a point where you should be continually reminded of what will be finalised each week. The list may be in order of priority so that the impending projects at the top of your list get taken care of early. All the chores not completed this week will be brought up to next week at a higher importance, this will make sure it gets done.

The next thing you might not be doing is having a daily list of jobs to get done. This will assist keep you on schedule during the day. Again, this list may be placed where you are able to continually refer to it and write off the jobs accomplished. Marking off the chores is a way to allow you a touch of success and let you review how you are working over the day. Always hold to this list when possible and try to continue working from the top priority to the lowest priority. I know things do jump up throughout the day that can throw the whole day topsyturvy, but you need to either take on the situation and get back to your list or if the new work isn’t as time sensitive as some of the work on your list then place it lower on the list and continue doing the task you were doing.

Each item you hope to do could be written down for a multitude of reasons. Firstly, so you don’t put off to do it and secondly, so you keep each day outlined and you achieve your daily goals. Be alert to starting items and not finishing them. This could turn tomorrow in a mushroom cloud of half finished tasks and could cause “list blowout”.

You will end up with a list at a mile long and you will back out in despair and go back to bad habits of working in a fuss during your day and accomplishing nothing.

Remember for each day you achieve your goals and polish off every item on your list, you become a step closer to finalising your weekly and ultimately your yearly and long term goals.

A few essentials on Time Management:

• Do it once and do it well, it’s wasteful reverting to the item and needing to redo it.
• Learn to civilly inform people when you’re busy and that you can return to them some time later.
• Learn to give other employees jobs that actually don’t require your direct participation.
• Don’t go on wild goose chases.
• Don’t waste time on phone calls that cannot accomplish something.
• Don’t procrastinate.
• Check back to your list of items to do often through the day.
• “Map out your day” in the shower and list out your daily list right when you start work. Finish what you list.
• Prioritise everything, always keep things in their order of priority to you and the customers.

Get away from time wasters, people that only go off to chat all day, and if they are your employees, set them straight, or get rid of them.

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