Time Management When Working from Home

When starting up a from-home business, time management is an element of business management that can be frequently overlooked or ignored.

We all know some person in small business who races around like a madman all day, rarely enough hours in the day, all they do is push and get worked up - perhaps this person is you! By the day’s end, when the dust settles, what have you accomplished? Do you replay the day and realise “what happened to the time, I didn’t get so much completed as I planned. If this is familiar, then you might simply have an organisational and time management problem.

Successful people rarely seem to rush, they stay composed and unflustered. The difference with them and the others is they have mastered time management.

What is time management? It is just planning minutes in your day in an organised and efficient process. Before we can really understand how to time manage our day, we must ask ourselves what we are trying to accomplish today, this week, this year and perhaps ten years from now. This is “Goal setting”.

The simplest way in my view to accomplish goals is to write them down. You might go back to the goals at points to make sure that they are meaningful and realisable but not so simple to do that you don’t have to try to achieve them otherwise what is the reason of any goals in the first place?

From the start of each working year you can takethe time and ponder what you plan to complete this year. It may be that you desire to increase your profits by 20%, you perhaps plan to move into better premises, you might desire to reduce your debt substantially. From the start of every new working week you may write down on a note pad or in your diary the major jobs that have to be accomplished this week, and check back them at every day to check you’re making progress and hopefully wipe some of your jobs from the list.

You could put the list on your desk or on a point where you could be constantly reminded of what has to be done this week. This list might be in order of priority so that the most important chores at the top of the list get finished first. All work not done this week will be taken up to next week at a higher ranking, this will make sure it gets taken care of.

The next thing you can be doing is having yourself a daily list of projects to accomplish. This can help keep you focused each day. Again, this list could be placed where you are able to persistently see it and check off the jobs finished. Checking off the projects helps to give you a pride of achievement and let you check on how you are working over the day. Always hold to this list where possible and continue working from the top priority to low priority. I know changes can appear over the day that can throw the whole day out of whack, but you must either take care of the problem and return to the list or if the new issue isn’t as time sensitive as some of the work on your list then put it lower on the list and continue on with the project you were doing.

Every issue you have to achieve needs to be written down for a few reasons. Firstly, so you don’t put off to do it and secondly, so you have every day outlined and you realise your daily goals. Be careful of initiating tasks and not completing them. This would come back tomorrow in a cloud of incomplete jobs and can cause “list blowout”.

You will end up with the list a mile long and you will back out in despair and reverse back to bad habits of getting in panic all day and completing nothing.

Remember for each day you plan your goals and tick off all the items on your list, you will be a step closer to reaching your weekly and soon your yearly and long term goals.

A few basics on Time Management:

• Do it once and do it well, it’s wasteful going back to the task and needing to redo it.
• Learn to simply inform people when you’re busy working and that you can speak to them at a later time.
• Learn to pass out chores that truly don’t need your hand.
• Don’t go on wild goose chases.
• Don’t use up time during phone calls that can’t take care of something.
• Don’t procrastinate.
• Check back to your list of things to do often throughout the day.
• “Map out your day” in the morning and plan out your daily list when you start work. Don’t stop what you list.
• Prioritise all your jobs, always begin jobs in their order of importance to you and the business.

Be evasive with time wasters, people who would simply decide to chat all day, and if they are employed by you, set them straight, or get rid of them.

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