How many of you plan your time?

Hi Mike, totally agreed. Failed to plan is plan to fail.

All the best in your IM venture.

Cheers

I do the same thing...notepads work perfectly for me...

I actually make a new one everyday....what I didn't get done the day before starts first on my new notepad list the next day...

Also I use Cool Timer to monitor my time and help me keep on track of how much time I spend on projects...

This is what I do, combined with Stay Focused - Make More Money!...

When I had a J.O.B. I was a waiter so I still have tons of those little pads laying around

I went as far as to make a "daily duties" using "notepad" and saved it as a txt file and I keep it on my desktop to keep me on track!

Hi:

Shireen here :-)

I've prepare a timetable and try to follow it 100%

Years ago, I didn't plan my time, until I realize that lots of people can achieve a lot better than I did, then I realize they planned their time. Then from that time I spend like 30minutes a day to plan my next day, writing to do list, etc.

I used to plan my time for everything. Don't do that often these days, once everything is set up.

If you are using Outlook, use the calender or tasks features to keep yourself on track and get automated reminders to keep up with the pace you set.

I have a day-to-view diary on my desk at home and a small diary at work.

Because I work, I need to plan my time very carefully so I can do my IM project and still have time for thr girlfriend.

While i'm at work, I try to get through as much as I can while i'm there. (hey i may aswell make the best of my time at work!)

My diary is my best friend!

I write every task on my cell phone,it also alerts me as well as displays on the desktop.

Planning your time is one of the essential activities for any internet marketer. Being able to see where you spend your time, and where it goes, and what output it brings you back is MAGIC.

Once you start planning you will realize hows and why's of making money online. Most of the time we are idle, maybe we are reading too much information, but what majority lacks is action.

You need to figure out what's your most valuable activity, that brings you most money back home. This is where most newcomer marketers fail. If you don't have a product, top priority activity would be making a product. So any time that you spend on something else, and not on product creation, is basically time wasted.

When you have a product, any time spent on not selling or optimizing sales funnel of your product, is, you guessed it, TIME WASTED.

Time planning is critical and of outmost importance! If you don't know where you will invest your time, how will you get to the destination that you have set for yourself? Being a good time manager is productive and highly valued activity that yields in high revenue. That way you ensure that time spent brings in those cars you want, those clothes you want to wear and the house you want to own!

Here's the secret...

Plan your time, but also plan a block or two of unstructured time during the day or week. This way, you can just follow your thoughts or do some early research and testing in future projects or ideas. Or you can just goof off without impacting any serious deadlines - since this goof off time was pre-planned, LOL

Time management is very important. Usually we note it in a notepad to remember things and schedules.

Plan my time, yes, but I usually don't plan to do something AT a certain time. I schedule blocks of time. 1 hour on this, 2 hours on this. Then I prioritize those blocks based on importance. Anything that doesn't get done in a day goes to the top of next days list.

Appointments are generally the only thing I actually schedule for a certain time.

As someone mentioned earlier, Outlook is awesome for it's calendar, tasks, AND notes feature.

EssentialPIM Pro is also a great alternative if you're not into MS software.

I use a piece of freeware called ToDoList, which helps me plan my days. It's a really good piece of freeware, I highly recommend it. You can split tasks into subtasks, and into subsubtasks, and down like that into infinity.

Before I used this freeware, I used to plan my days down to the minute, actually having a timetable for the day. I don't do that anymore though. I just have a list of tasks to get done for the day.

But recently, I have planned out my tasks for the next 3 weeks.

Making check lists is a great idea as long as those items on the check list are important and are focussed on achieving your targets. Sometimes we can have items on the to do list which are not important - are not going to get us to our targets so just end up cluttering that to do lists. I use the ideas from simpleology which incorporate a great software programme at no cost called daily target practice - focussing on the targets you set, keeping them in our sites and making sure we hit those targets. Planning time, energy and money are all important and inter twined.