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Best Time Management Tips (Part 1)
Looking for the BEST Time-Management Tips?
Here they are!
Your life is nothing but a measure of time – when you waste one, you waste the other! How much is your time worth? Question: How much would you pay for another hour if you were healthy, but about to die? That’s right, you’d give everything you own, you would empty the vault for the gift of those precious few minutes! Now I don’t want to overdo the point, but I do want you to get a sense of the value of time and the need to protect it. We need to see time as valuable, the way we typically look at money.
So to that end, I have created a collection of exceptionally good time management tips and would like you to see which ones fit your life and can benefit you. Some are simple time-savers, others can be life changing if used properly and consistently. Please feel free to comment on this article – I love to hear from you! If you want to leave me your time-management tips, website email me (see below). Thanks!
Learn to Speed Read - I wish I had learned this tip before I finished the bulk of my college education. This one tip might have given me back a year or so of my life. In today’s competitive society it is hard to keep up with all the information pouring in unless we can speed read. People are also very impressed with speed readers and see them as more intelligent (simply because they can’t do it). I used a software program called “Eye-Q” - it currently sells for around $200, and is well worth the price. You can buy a Deluxe Edition for about $250 with 10 licenses. This entire course is 12 sessions of 7-minutes each! Do the math, you’ll be speed-reading in under an hour and a half worth of training. With this amount of training, it’s typical to double your reading speed, some people do significantly better. The other course to try is the classic Evelyn Woods program, but it’s slower (and I hate that!) You can attend a class either in person or online, or you can buy a DVD and video set, but it is very expensive (I hate that too!) (approximately $700).
“Tear-Out method” - Avoid downtime by tearing out sections of interest from newspapers and magazines that you can stick in your pocket, purse or briefcase to read during downtime. This way when you’re on the plane, waiting in a doctor’s office, a meeting is starting late, etc. you can recapture this as productive time by using it to study and gain some type of advantage in your field or business. This technique will keep you way ahead of the competition and is a great system for relieving boredom as an added benefit.
Keep a list of useful resources – Searching for resources you already have will drive you nuts! Not having the resources you need will drive you nuts! Regularly ask people what they have that they could share for resources on various topics, then get a copy or have them email you the link or file. Save them even if you don’t use them …. Give them away later as favors … favors that you can hopefully later trade for the other person’s time. Learn how to seek out and find resources – my 3 favorites are 1) Google 2) friends 3) the government and local agencies (they store a boat load of data!)
Avoid Travel – Travel is very expensive and a killer of time. If you travel 30 minutes in each direction to get somewhere for a one-hour meeting, you wasted half your time. It’s simply a matter of math, so do the math to see if it’s worth it. If you can avoid it with a phone call, e-mail, fax or combining the meeting with another meeting, such as a mandatory training. Many times it’s more productive to host the meeting at your place of business or residence due to the time savings, which you’ll be thinking about, but they won’t. They will likely think you’re doing them a favor, and being very gracious (which I’m sure you are).
That’s it for now … but look for more soon!
Paul J. Cline MA CAGS CAP Ed.D (ABD) is a Trainer / Seminar Leader, University Professor, Certified Addictions Professional (CAP) and local expert on Time Management. Paul is owner of Advanced Training Seminars - Providing Professional Speakers and Experts for Sminars, Trainings & Consulting. Based in St. Petersburg, FL (727) 204-0779. Email: paulcline7@yahoo.com - Visit our website at: www.advancedtrainingseminars.com - Check out our selection of FREE Articles and Useful Links & Resources.
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