How Important is Your Time Management?
At first glance, you might be thinking, well it’s very important to me!
But.. Let’s be honest with ourselves for a second.. Can you really ask the question and honestly say that you make the most effective use of your time day in and day out?
If you can, then great!
I’d like to get some of your thoughts on this as I think it would be worth discussing the way it affects us as Marketers.
1. Do you get easily distracted?
2. What motivates you to stay on task?
3. Does it frustrate you when someone else you work with or hire has time-management problems?
4. Do you often make excuses keeping you from accomplishing what you originally set out to do?
5. Do you work based on a schedule or work just when you feel its necessary?
I realize some of the questions seem fairly obvious but lately, I’ve seen time management issues affecting many things and with many people which prompted me to blog about this topic.
For me personally, I get easily distracted so it’s really important for me to try and stay as focused as possible.
Over the last few months, I have tried to improve my time management by completely changing the way I look at my business. So many different things can often pull us in many different directions.
Some of the questions I’ve been asking myself lately when it comes to products and services are, do I really need this right now? Will buying this delay and take time away from what I’m currently working on?
How does this fit into my current business model?
The key for me of course, has been FOCUS.
So again, how important is your time management?
-Ryan
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There is a service called RescueTime that I started using a week or so ago. It sits in your taskbar and tracks what programs you are using and what websites you goto. You can then tag domains and programs for different categories (IE: gmail.com and AIM for communication). Then you can see first hand that you play too many games! (ok, so I already knew that).
But yeah time management is way difficult when it’s a one man show and you have a toddler and a pregnant wife and work at home. Oh and my office door is now open because we only have wiring for one air conditioner right now! So this program helps me realize how much time I spend on what, so I can figure out where to improve!
Ryan, I know for a fact that my time management skills are completely lacking. That’s something I plan to work on when I get into my new home. Right now I’m working on my laptop at the kitchen table so it’s harder for me to be organized enough.
I’m hoping that getting a REAL home office set up will help me get a daily schedule set up and really help me take my business to the next level time management wise.
Great post! Looking forward to seeing more
Jon
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Tim,
thanks for the info on the RescueTime service.
That looks awesome.
Here’s the link if anyone’s interested: http://www.rescuetime.com/
Congratulations on your second child too!
Jon,
Good luck with your move, man and thanks for the post!
1. Yes… lol
2. I have to figure out a way to like what I’m doing, If I like it, It’s much easier to stay on task.
3. I dunno…
4. Yes, If I like/want to do something else.
5. Right now I just work whenever I feel like it lol, I want a daily schedule though.
So yeah, its pretty bad right now… going to take a look at that RescueTime service.
Joakim
I’ve actually spent a lot of time creating my own organization/scheduling systems for time management. I can’t say I’ve been successful doing it, but being more in control of my time has been incredibly helpful.
Planning before I start and mapping out my day make a huge difference.
I have 3 must do’s each day before I can go to forums, news sources, the sports and those are the 3 most important task from the mind map.
If I do that thinkgs work well if I don’t have my mind map it becomes a wasted day so time management is extremely important.
Time Management? My lack of focus has nearly destroyed my business. Trying to work on my time and focus issues so I can “REZ” myself back to money making status.
Maybe a follow up to this on how to use better Time Management would bring me back to RyanHogan.com
Thanks, Mike and Justin, that’s a good idea I may take you up on in the near future.