Time Management When Working from Home

When you start out in a home business, time management is an area of business management that is often overlooked or neglected.

Surely everybody knows someone in small business who races about like a chicken with its head cut off all day, without enough hours in a day, all they do is hurry and get overloaded - maybe this person is you! Come the week’s end, when the dust settles, what have you accomplished? Do you review the day and ponder “what happened to the day, I didn’t get so much done as I planned I could. If this seems familiar, then you might have an organisational and time management problem.

Successful people don’t seem to rush, they stay composed and unflustered. The difference between them and other people is they have accomplished time management.

What is time management? It is just planning minutes in your day in an organised and efficient scheme. Before we can fully go ahead with how to time manage our day, we must question ourselves what we are attempting to achieve today, this week, this year and possibly even ten years from now. This is “Goal setting”.

The most effective method in my preference to accomplish goals is to write them down. You should review these goals at times to know that they are appropriate and workable but not so easy to do that you don’t need to put in the work to accomplish them otherwise what is the point of the goals in the first place?

From the beginning of each new working year you should take time and ponder what you want to complete this year. It could be that you desire to increase your profits by 20%, you might want to move into better premises, you could want to reduce your debt once and for all. By the beginning of each working week you can write down on a note pad or in your diary the major chores that need to be completed this week, and review them each day to ensure you’re making progress and hopefully check some of the jobs off your list.

You can keep your list on your desk or in a place where you could be persistently reminded of what must be done this week. This list could be in order of importance so that the major work at the top of the list get finished earlier. Any of the jobs not finished this week need to be carried through to next week at a higher ranking, this will demand it gets taken care of.

The next thing you could be doing is having yourself a daily list of projects to accomplish. This may assist keep you on schedule during each day. Again, this list will be displayed where you can repeatedly look at it and check off the tasks done. Polishing off the jobs should allow you a sense of accomplishment and let you review how you are going throughout the day. Always adhere to the list if possible and try to continue working from the top priority to low priority. I know difficulties do show up throughout the day that may throw the whole day up, but you have to either take on the problem and then return to the list or if the newly arisen dilemma isn’t as time sensitive as some of the projects on the list then target it lower on your list and continue on with the chore you were doing.

Every project you plan to finish needs to be written down for a couple of reasons. Firstly, so you don’t forget to do it and secondly, so you have each day organised and you get your daily goals. Be wary of initiating tasks and not finishing them. This will become tomorrow in a mess of not completed work and can cause “list blowout”.

You will end up with the list at a mile long and you will throw it out in despair and go back to bad habits of running around in confusion during your day and realizing nothing.

Remember for every day you write out your goals and write off all the jobs on your list, you will get a little closer to polishing off your weekly and ultimately your yearly and long term goals.

A few basics on Time Management:

• Do it once and do it well, it’s wasteful coming back to the project and needing to redo it.
• Learn to politely inform people when you’re working and that you would return to them some time later.
• Learn to give other employees chores that really don’t require your direct work.
• Don’t take on wild goose chases.
• Don’t waste time with phone calls that are not going to take care of something.
• Don’t procrastinate.
• Check back to your list of chores to do repeatedly through the day.
• “Map out your day” in the morning and schedule out your daily list as soon as you begin work. Don’t stop what you begin.
• Prioritise in everything you do, always begin things in their order of priority to you and the business.

Don’t get in with time wasters, people that would just like to chat all day, and if they work for you, set them straight, or get rid of them.

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