Managing Time

If you can recapture a wasted hour here and there and redirect it to a more productive use, you can make great increases in your daily productivity.

Here are ten of the techniques, each one of which will help you get at least one more hour out of your day of additional productive time.

1. Maintain Balance

Your life consists of Seven Vital Areas;
-Health
-Family
-Financial
-Intellectual
-Social
-Professional
-Spiritual

Every day you will not spend equal amount of time in each area but in the long run, you are spending sufficient quantity and quality of time in each area and your life will be balanced. but if you ingnore one or two or maybe three, you will get out balance and potentially sabotage your success.

2. Get the power in the pen

A faint pen has more power than the keenest mind. Get into habits of writing things to do down using one tool. Your mind is best used for the big picture rather than all the details. The details are important but manage them with the pen. If you want to manage it you have to measure it first. Writing all things down, not just incoming orders, helps you to more easily remember all that you need to accomplish.

3.Do daily planning

It is said that people do ot plan to fail but a lot of people fail to plan. take the time each night to take control of the most precious resurces at your command, the next 24 hours.

4. Prioritize It

Your To Do list will have crucial and not crucial items on it. Despite the fact most people want to be productive, when gives the choice between crucial and not crucial items, we will most often end up doing the not crucial items. They are generally easier and quicker than crucial items. Prioritize your To Do List each night. You may not get the most important things done. this is working smarter, not harder, and getting more done in less time

5. Control procrastination

The most effective planning in the world does not substitute for doing what needs to be done. We procrastinate and put off important things we don't sense enough pain for not doing it or enough pleasure to do it. To get going on something you have been putting off, create in your mind enough pain for not doing it or enough pleasure to do it.