Time Management When Working from Home

When you start up a home based business, time management is an area of business management that can be frequently overlooked or ignored.

Sure enough, we all know a person in small business who races at it like a chicken with its head cut off all day, never enough hours in every day, all they do is hurry and get worked up - perhaps this person is you! Come the week’s end, when the rush settles, what have you gotten out of it? Do you replay the day and realise “what happened to the hours, I didn’t get so much finished as I hoped I could. If this is familiar, then you might have an organisational and time management problem.

Successful people never appear to rush, they always remain composed and unflustered. The difference between them and other people is they possess time management.

What is time management? It is just arranging minutes in your day in an organised and efficient way. Before we can fully take on how to time manage our day, we first must figure for ourselves what we are planning to accomplish today, this week, this year and possibly even ten years from now. This is “Goal setting”.

The most effective key in my perspective to complete goals is to write them down. You can think about the goals sometimes to feel that they are purposeful and realisable but not so simple that you don’t need to make the effort to achieve them otherwise what is the reason of any goals in the first place?

At the start of each working year you could sit and think about what you desire to get this year. It might be that you wish to increase your profits by 20%, you perhaps desire to move into different premises, you perhaps wish to get rid of your debt significantly. At the first day of every working week you might write down on a note pad or in your diary the major chores that need to be completed this week, and reflect them on each day to make sure that you’re making progress and hopefully wipe some of the chores from your list.

You might keep your list on your desk or at a place where you could be repeatedly reminded of what will be undertaken throughout the week. This list should be in order of urgency so that the key chores at the top of your list get finished first up. All jobs not accomplished this week need to be brought forward next week at a higher ranking, this should ensure it gets done.

The next thing you will be doing is having a daily list of jobs to do. This can help keep you on schedule each day. Again, this list may be put where you can persistently check on it and mark off the chores finalised. Polishing off the items could give you a pride of success and let you know how you are working during the day. Always hold to this list where possible and keep working from the top priority to the lowest priority. I know loopholes do jump up over the day that sometimes throw the whole day in the air, but you need to either take care of the problem and return to your list or if the sudden problem isn’t as serious as some of the chores on your list then list it lower on the list and continue on with the job you were doing.

Each job you hope to do could be written down for a multiplicity of reasons. Firstly, so you don’t put off to do it and secondly, so you have the day scheduled and you accomplish your daily goals. Be alert to beginning tasks and not completing them. This might become tomorrow in a disaster of not completed jobs and will cause “list blowout”.

You will end up with your list at a mile long and you will back out in despair and reverse back to those habits of getting yourself in rush during your day and achieving nothing.

Remember every day you plan your goals and write off every chore on your list, you get a step closer to finalising your weekly and eventually your yearly and long term goals.

A few tips on Time Management:

• Do it once and do it well, it’s fruitless coming back to the task and needing to redo it.
• Learn to civilly say to people when you’re busy and that you can return to them at a later time.
• Learn to delegate tasks that actually don’t need your hand.
• Don’t take on wild goose chases.
• Don’t use up time on phone calls that will not take care of something.
• Don’t procrastinate.
• Check back to your list of work to do regularly at points through the day.
• “Map out your day” in the morning and plan out your daily list right when you get to work. Finish what you initiate.
• Prioritise every day, always begin tasks in their order of importance to you and the work.

Avoid time wasters, people that merely go off to chat all day, and if they work for you, set them straight, or get rid of them.

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