One of the most valuable assets that you personally have is time. A waste of time is a waste of money. Money that is wasted also squanders your resources and often costs you the opportunity to do other things in life that you would rather do such as spend time with your family, learn a new skill or work on a personal goal like getting fit or taking a course.
Nowadays it is hard to save both time and money but a good business person will learn to save both. In fact, given the amount of time we all spend doing things like standing in line, filling out forms or waiting on hold to speak someone, our time has become more precious than ever.
Many of think that we are saving time by not organizing our time but nothing can be further than the truth. Nothing costs you more time, money and energy than disorganization. Furthermore, many of us also seek out things that deliberately drain our time, like surfing Facebook or getting involved in other people’s personal dramas, to avoid facing what we need to do. If you are serious about being a business person you will eliminate those habits that are costing you money during the day.
Keeping up with life is hard enough nowadays as most of us find ourselves suffering from foggy brains, lousy constitutions and sheer exhaustion just trying to keep up with what we need to do each day. This can begin to make your feel helpless and like your life is spinning out of control. Getting control of your schedule helps you become a person that is back in control, that is capable of saving money and can thrive.
Before you decide to donate your time to any endeavor you ask to ask yourself if it is worth it. You need to know what or who is important to you and if a project is worth doing. For instance projects that do not pay enough or that are not in line with your ethics have less of a chance of getting done.
Part of mastering time management is reclaiming your energy and focus and concentrating on what is going to propel you forward in life, save you time and get you to your goals. The miscellaneous stuff that has little or no payoff in your life must go. You have to learn how to stop being a people pleaser and how to stay no or you will not achieve a high level of success.
