by Karen T. Sanders

Created on: March 26, 2009

How to Get Enough Time to Do What You Want!

I have been reading book after book on making money online and there has been a popular refrain on time management. There are only so many things you can do in a day and if you are working a full time job, you will have even less time to spend on your online business. Those entrepreneurs who can afford the dot com lifestyle are usually very successful in time management. At my full time job, we receive weekly training (usually about 30-45 minutes). This week's training was on time management. It's a popular topic no matter what your job or lifestyle and for a very good reason. The more you manage your time, the more time you have to spend on the things you want to do.

Did you know for every fifteen minutes you spend during an eight hour workday is slightly over three percent of your workday? It is. Every hour is worth 12.5% of an eight hour workday. Can you afford to lose even 3% of your workday to distractions? What can you get done in fifteen minutes?

It amazes me the number of people that even though they are "working" are unable to meet reasonable goals in an allotted time. There are many ways to schedule your time so that you work both efficiently and effectively. My favorite time management book is Julie Morgenstern's "Time Management from the Inside Out". In this book, she uses the anagram SPACE to denote the steps to time management.

Sort - Categorizing the tasks and estimating how long each task will take.

Purge - Getting rid of unnecessary tasks.

Assign - This is the when. When is the task going to be done? How important is this task? Is there a deadline?

Containerize - Keeping tasks in the time allotted for them

Equalize - Monitor yourself and make adjustments

SORT: What does your to do list have on it? How long will each task take? Once you have answered those questions, you can start to organize your tasks. A lot of people I know find it hardest to get started. They see the task before them and are overwhelmed by the sheer amount of work. Break each large task down into parts. Say for instance, you need to write a tutorial on making a chainmail bracelet but have no idea where to start. Well, start with an outline. An outline gives you a breakdown of sections to write and then breaks each section down by paragraphs. This way you know the topic of each paragraph and you can go from one to the next without having to think about what that paragraph is covering. Use that same principle on any task. Outline what needs

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