Easy Time Management

Time management is one of the most desired skills in online business. Often working alone, people are easily distracted and lose focus, even when their main aim on any one day is to generate content, subscribers and profits.

Here are 3 easy steps to gaining control of your time so you can keep moving forward.

First, get rid of any activities not relevant to your day's aim.
You know the one's I mean:

There's your email checking. This can easily become a habit. You tell yourself you'll just check it out in case something important has turned up, or maybe you're simply curious to see what people are sending you. Before you know it, at least several minutes, if not hours have passed, and your business work in no further forward.

Check email at the end of your working day, or at a daily set time. But never at the day's start.

Then, there's your cell phone.

You'll have seen how many people keep checking theirs out of sheer habit. Or you leave it switched on while your working and someone phones you, thus destroying your concentration. Perhaps even diverting you to an unnecessary task away from productive work.

Switch if off while working. Tell customers, and everyone else, you only have it on at certain times and tell them those times. Don't let other people control your business time.

The television, or online programs

I would have thought this was a no brainer but it's amazing what excuses people can have to have a TV on or in their work place. Also, it's too easy to tune into an on line program you like to watch, maybe even as you work at your computer.

You need to remove all such distractions during your working time, and don't even have them in the same room.

Second, write down or record in some way what is really important to get done in your business that month, week, or day.

For example, keep control of your time by deciding for the week ahead what you need to do in your business. What are the actions you need to take and what tasks need to get done.

Then, number them from the most important to the least important.

Once you've got a record of them in this way, work your way through them day by day.

Third, prioritize your time management.

If you prioritize unfocused activities, then that's all you get at the end of the day.

Let me put it this way: your time management is getting those tasks done. When you focus on them, you're in charge of your own time. When you're not doing them, you're wasting your time.