How to create extra time out of your busy day

What are some of the ways you can create time out of your busy day?

How do you get an increasing number of tasks accomplished everyday with the busy life of a business owner?

One of the ways I have found very rewarding is to get to work early.

If you start early, you will not get caught up in traffic jam and you will have a smooth ride to your business premises. I don’t know if you know how those farmers, who deliver milk, work.

Some of them milk their cows in the wee hours of the night because milk collection happens at night or very early in the morning.

Overall, by the time many people are getting to sip a cup of morning tea, milk sellers and brokers have already made their sales of the day and moved on to other tasks.

EARLY START

Getting to work early is a huge advantage in that you will be able to get a lot of tasks done before the phone calls start coming and customers or staff walk to your desk for this or that.

I think your are more alert in the early hours too and you can get a chance to do a great review of your business during such time or even think through how you are going to get around for what is not working well.

Add extra time to your busy day by getting to work very early.

You can also get a chance to leave early and create family time. This way, you also get to avoid the evening rush hour that quite often leads to traffic gridlock.

MAIN GOAL

It is always important to have in mind your most important goals for the day.

Those things that you will be glad to have accomplished at the end of the day. When you get these items done early in the day, you feel pretty good.

Let us say that you have a daily goal of closing a certain number of sales, if you achieve the target by mid-morning, you will feel as if the day’s mission is accomplished and you can go out for your favourite early lunch.

You will have more time to fix smaller assignments and can even prepare for the following day’s tasks. Get your most important goals of the day accomplished early whenever possible.

If you work online, there are many distractions today.

From WhatsApp messages on your phone to social media networks and I dare say email. I prefer to shut off at most of the day so as to concentrate on my work.

STAFF PRODUCTIVITY

Its easier to create time slots when you look at them but even for your own staff’s productivity, it may be nice to have strict rules or install programmes that disable social media during working hours.

I am not saying social media is only a distraction, social media is a great marketing avenue but be careful not to completely stray because of all the posts, comments and updates flowing through twitter, Facebook or WhatsApp.

Another way to get more done is to clear small tasks quickly instead of piling them up.

Any task that requires less than two minutes to complete should not be postponed. If you keep postponing small tasks, you will soon have to deal with a crisis.

Lastly, don’t become a victim of procrastination.

Being business requires a decisive mind. When you make your decision, you begin to move forward and this means time is used making progress.