Time Management

Wow, you've actually have a clock counting down your daily minutes? Seems kind of brutal, I just right down what I have to do for the entire month. Daily, Weekly and Monthly tasks. I then tape my monthly calendar right in front of me when I working, so its like saying to me, hey today you have to put up that WSO, or today you need to finish writing your squeeze page. I know what you mean though, it really helps when you have someone, or something on your a** to get your jobs done. LoL

Hahaha if I don't have no one pushing me than I aint gonna do ****! I need that person behind me driving me. Even if I know once I get this done it is an extra couple of hundred dollars a day I still tend to be lazy. And instead of actually doing something that is going to make me money than I am on here answering questions and chit chatting. Damn I gotta get back to work now!!!!

Yeah I plan my time too, I use the morning for the boring and tedious, but mostly important work when I'm, focused and tend to do the more relaxing and not so important stuff in the evening.

Time management is very important. I used to this thing but I can't follow it.

Yes time management is so important. It is so easy to get off track when there is so much to "stuff" to do on the internet. I am going to try the whole timer thing. Maybe that will help me be more productive. I often find myself up all hours of the night getting things done that I should have done earlier in the day.

Sometimes I get distracted from my work as well, using a clock to time myself is a good idea.

I think the most important thing is that you tell yourself that you can only do that certain task during that allotted time. Also, I have found that it works best to do the stuff you want to do the least right away. After that, everything else seems easy. Often times it is how you perceive things as to what you get done. If you have something like a times holding you to a task, then maybe you will be more likely to get it done? Like I said before, all I know is that I get way more done when I stick to this routine.

I need to be alone in order to manage my time perfectly,
if not i would get easily distracted.
And sometimes listening to musics while working is distracting too,
do you guys listen to music while working?

Hi guys

im the opposite im extremely organised and have excel spreadsheets for everything that i do and i plan what needs doing and always meet my deadlines.

I will often have a dvd on in the background when i am working but dont get distracted which is one of the best talents to have in this industry.

kind regards


sam
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is indeed a talent for u,
i actually love listening to music while working but i just get distracted easily.
Sigh =(((

timer worked fine for me for a while (I had it set to 33mins, that worked best for me) and then in the breaks I did something totally unrelated (like gardening, quick walk meditate).

Tried a LOT of stuff (see the 2nd video on the page I link to in my signature (the video-page), but what made the difference was recognising that taking action (especially "massive" action) is the worst thing you can do when you're not ready for taking massive action...

(took me a few years of going to seminars and always hearing: "now that you've had all these amazing insights, off you go and take massive action." And every year I'd be coming back and all those people share their insights in front of a big crowd and all I could think was "heck , you had that same insight a year ago and still haven't moved forward in your life")

that all changed when I found that the ONLY type of action is the action that moves you to the next phase of readiness (for taking massive action). Sounds a little complicated, but has been proven on tens of thousands of people who wanted to give up naughty habits (overeating, smoking, drinking, debt, procrastination) and couldn't ... until they took action on "moving to the next stage" as opposed to "now I'm going cold-turkey, from today I'm going to be X (non-smoker, skinny, super-effective...)

apologies for the blatant self-promotion, have a look at the videos in my link below, it's all free, no signup ... and if you're suffering from the effects of procrastination, it'll help you not only havee yet another insight, but actually move forward.

let me know how you get on

Veit

Thats a great tip there Mt Raygun - I will look out for one tomorrow as I think that I am going to be distracted in here. It looks like an exciting place to hang out - and most of the guys are cute.

I would love to hear some of them talk coz I love accents - mine is welsh and I think its horrid.

The timer idea is very good ... will have to start it.

Not long ago I was listening to an audio by Rob 'the Genie' Toth and someone said "Time is money". Rob was quick to disagree and said he didn't think that ... time is more important that money.

Al

We all are quility of this. I have found out that there are days that I stay on the computer for as long as 12 hours but never got anything tangible done.

To conquer this, I had to be writing down everything that needs to be done on a particular day. Having a time table forces you to get responsible and what you have to do.

One shocking truth is, the warrior forum contributes 90% of the main reason why some of us ( especially me ) don't get much done. I just can seem to stop coming here to read the posts.

I have heard several marketers say similar things. I have always practiced taking a break for ten minutes at the top of each hour. 5-10 minutes before until the top to 5 minutes after, sometimes a little more, depending.

I got out of the practice for awhile, but returned to it. I found my mind automatically breaks about 10 till the top of the hour, even if I started 5 minutes earlier, but I don't worry about it. I take my break and when I return, my mind is back on my project and often working more clearly than before.

Productivity increases if you can have 40-50 minutes every hour uninterupted.

Just my two cents worth.... now send it via paypal...

I am going to try the timer thing, though I've found that, if I get into a writing groove, taking a break is sometimes the worst thing I could do because it totally smashes my concentration.

I find that what keeps me on task is having to justify my time to someone. It's ironic since one of the reasons I started working freelance was to get away from an annoying boss who was constantly breathing down my neck, but I'm honestly more productive when I have to justify my downtime to someone. So I let my husband have access to my to-do lists and he can ask me "why didn't this get done?" if he feels like it. Having to justify a non-productive day to someone who shares my bank account is enough to keep me working

Well.. a timer will indeed help a lot with your time management. You see, we have all been well taught on the subject about goal planning as well and generally speaking goal setting can be categorized into short term and long term.

So, your timer might be good to keep you on track to reach your short term / long term goal but I find this "countdown" timer does a little more than that. TimeLeft - Free clock, reminder, countdown, stopwatch, timer, sticker, auction watch and time synchronization utility using Winamp skins to show digits and text.. It's perfect for long term goal. You can see how much time you still have to that big day! from year/mth/day/hour/min down to sec.

I just love it. Other than that, you can either have a diary or a planner on your table and mark every important task on there to remind yourself what to do next. I am terribly weak in memory and I use to set my hp multiple reminders to remind myself on things that I needed to do one day prior to the actual day (Note: I start doing this this after the deadly lesson of forgetting my wedding anniversary - you know...women are emotional creature).

And I get distracted easily, so doing anything serious while my family members are awake is not possible. So, I usually get to work after they went to bed or just time myself to wake up a little earlier in the morning to do it.

And most importantly, you need to be constantly reminded of your goal so your mind don't go wanders about everything that your eyes or ears report to it. So, what I did was to put the image of my goal as my desktop background (not screensaver). And you see from this thread http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...6MzuyfAkM60otk that those who posted the picture / photos has higher chance to get their mind focus on it.

Just my 2 cents..

I have my own schedule right in front of be, beside my monitor. However, for a one week trial, I wasn't able to follow this schedule. Again, hopefully, I can religiously follow this by next week.

Honestly, I'm so distracted with so many possible activities over the net. It's so hard for me to focus on what I'm doing. But, I'm a little bit successful in trimming down some unnecessary online activities I have. This help me concentrate more than before.

Maybe I should try your suggest. To be honest, I'm a type of person who wants to work under pressure. I think your idea can be a great help for me.

I just posted a video on this very subject!

Start A Web Design Business | How to Track Billable Hours Using Timeleft Countdown Timer Software

Time Management is very important thing. I plan every day.

I use the timer on my phone. I plan my day, what i'm going to do, how much time I plan to spend on each task, how much I can delegate out and then I set the timer and go. It takes discipline but it works.

I have thought about time management for a long time now but I still feel there is some piece I am missing. I don't think time can be pushed into small chunks and looked at the same way as physical objects like pieces of metal.

I think time has another quality to it which is qualitative and not as easily numbered or counted. For example, your attention. If you focus on your hand, I feel there is a certain quality right there in that moment that is different from you just walking down the street with your head drifting about not thinking about anything in particular.

Because of this, despite studying time management for many years, I still am not sure what the optimal way to handle this issue of different qualities of time. Anyone have any suggestions or advice?

Thanks for any replies!

That's good. Something that works for me superbly well I got in part from Tim Ferris of the 4-hour work week. I just tackle the job that contributes most to by bottom line by a ways. And just concentrate on that to a done

The method of time managment you are using is a variation of the pomodoro technique where you use a kitchen timer and set it for 20 minutes and devote yourself totally for the full time then you take a break of 5-10 minutes. This breaks your day up into segments of intense devoted time and breaks. I read about this method a few months back and in fact found an ebook on it and tried it. It works well. I am not sure where I found the ebook though.