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Do you often run out of time?
Does time appear fluid, sometimes there is plenty, yet at others there just isn’t enough?
What effective time management can do for you, is to organize your tasks into the available time thus levelling out this apparent fluidity, giving you more control over your work-life balance of time.
As you have seen in the video, lost time is lost forever, it is the only commodity we cannot replace, so by investing in time management skills you will make the most of the time available to you.
Start a to-do list then identify your priorities, and what time to alot to each task.
It has been suggested that the average person has 300 hours of projects waiting to be completed at any one time, covering the workplace, home, education, relationships, and leisure activities.
How in hell do you start to prioritize these, especially when you would prefer to do the enjoyable parts first, and to leave the awkward tasks to last!
Well I’ll tell you…
…you have to trim the list by giving up some of the things that are not so important, then you sort the list so that the most urgent tasks go to the top and get done first, namely you have to prioritize.
The more ruthless you are, the more you will get done, and the more at ease you will feel.
Have you ever heard of the 80/20 rule, also known as the Pareto Principle named after Vilfredo Pareto. It applies to many areas including demographics, mathematics and nature, but we are only interested in how it affects your efficiency right now.
Ok explanation coming up…
…if you have a to-do list of 10 items, 2 of those will be worth more than the remaining 8 items together. Put more clearly, 80-percent of your results will be produced by 20-percent of your things to do. It is these 20-percent of tasks we have to identify and move up to the top of the to-do list to improve your efficiency and success.
All tasks will fall into one of these four categories I will reveal to you today…
- Important and Urgent
- Not Important but Urgent
- Not Urgent but Important
- Not Urgent and not Important
The more urgency a task has, the higher up your list it goes. And the more important the task, the more time you alot to it.
An urgent task will be one that will have major consequences if it should not be done right away, therefore always analyze the negative effects of a task to determine it’s priority.
Important tasks are usually the ones that keep a well oiled machine running effeciently, they always need doing but they won’t cause the machine to break down, unless continually neglected.
The non-urgent and non-important tasks should be delegated or out-sourced as much as possible.
Please remember that you will only regain control of your work-life balance of time if you stop adding to your to-do list, so get rid of the clutter, banish the trivial, and start a to-do list, calendar, and organizer straight away. 
Sincerely,
P.S. If you are in need of tackling your time management and improving your work life balance, you should take a look at my special free report Time Management Tactics to become efficiently successful.
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