For Entrepreneurs, It’s All About Time
Everybody gets the same amount of time: 168 hours in a given week; 8,736 in a year. And yet a common complaint among entrepreneurs and small-business owners is that they wish they had more time.
While a 25-hour day is impossible, there are ways to become more productive within the existing 24.
Donald Wetmore, who conducts time management seminars, offers a number of ideas — some obvious, others not — on Powerhomebiz.com, a small-business Web site.
Here are some of his suggestions:
- Plan tomorrow today. If you do not wait until you get into the office to plan your day, you will be that much further ahead. Accept the idea you may not get everything done. The solution is to prioritize.
- Do not try to keep it in your head. “A faint pen has more power than the keenest mind. Get into the habit of writing things to do down using one tool.
- Sleep. “You can have a great to do list for your next day but if you are tired, your productivity will be adversely impacted. Schedule a sufficient amount of sleep.”
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James Chapman on April 10th, 2008 2:31 pm
I have found that if you dedicate five minutes to thinking about your business, just before you go to sleep, that you will have maybe one or two ideas and when you wake up in the morning the ideas seem to be fresh in your mind and you are then eager to implement them in that day or the next.
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