Though often a challenge, time management is crucial to maintain efficiency and professionalism. Managing your time means being on time, making deadlines, and getting rid of wasteful projects and tasks.
Cutting those wasteful projects and tasks is easy to say, but many people have a hard time even identifying them. I’ve compiled a list of tips to identify wasteful tasks to help with that. Once you’ve identified them, the actual cutting is up to you.
A pretty good clue that the task at hand is wasteful may be that …
1. the task is done 2 or more times daily when once should suffice.
time spent outweighs money earned. Count your time. It’s worth something. (Especially if you use time to create residual passive income)
2. the task drains mental, emotional, spiritual and physical energy beyond what it promises to replenish. Your tasks should bring you some degree of satisfaction. If they don’t, there may be something wrong with that picture
3. no one benefits. Who is it helping? If the answer is no one, you may be wasting your time.
These are just a few ways to measure how effective you are with time management. None of this is to say, of course, that every moment must produce dollars or even be efficient. Entertainment, relaxation and relationships are important aspects of life, and time should be set aside for these things. The problem arises when we give too much time to these areas. Priorities and balance – always important.
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