Time Management is something that I have practiced and learned to be pretty good at. We can all improve, but I used to be terrible at it and now I am actually pretty efficient. As usual, I read a lot of books on time management and applied different parts of them that I thought were the best.
One thing that I regularly do is I will write out a quick to-do list of the main things I want to accomplish every day. I will write this out the night before, so that it is ready on my desk in the morning. That way, there is never any wasted time when I get up and start working. I always know exactly what I need to be doing to be on track.
Most people waste a lot of time during the day, and I used to waste a lot of time before I implemented techniques like this to keep myself on track.
In “The 4-Hour Workweek”, Tim Ferriss says, “you should have, at most, two primary goals or tasks per day” (this is on page 80 if you have the book). Usually I have more than two items on my list, but these are all steps to accomplishing my two main goals per day.
One of the best books that I read on getting organized and learning time management techniques was “Getting Things Done” by David Allen. This is a great book and will really get you thinking on how you can streamline your workflow and get things done.
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