The article "6 Easy Time Tips" talks about family, it has been released by Susan W. Miller.
You are definitely not alone if you're feeling a need to simplify and organize your life. Many people easily sepnd 20 minutes a day looking for things.
That is 122 horus a year – 5 entire days every year. You are bombarded with information from every direction, with 150,000 books and 10,000 periodicals published each year in the USA, before you even consider all the material coming at you from every direction online and various parts of your personal and professional life.
A survey of 600 adults commissioned by the Franklin Covey Co.
shows:
42% of adults rpeort they too often feel “life is a treadmill and I can’t get off.”
78% of adults say they wish they had more time to “stop and smell the roses.”
58% believe technological advances have given them more time.
But they are using old habtis with new technology. We need new habits.
81% of people consider themselves organized, YET –
83% say getting more organized is among thier goals.
Consider the Law of the Slight Edge. When you use your time more effectively just one hour a day, 365 days a year (weekends, too), your yield would be an additional 45 - eight hour days. That’s 1 1/2 months! What would you do with that 'extra' time?
And that's how much time the Natoinal Association of Professional Organizers says professionals spend looking for things. That's 45 days of every year spent looking for stuff, time you could spend doing more of what you would really like to do!
Here are six painless and simple tips to manage your time more effectively, tips to help reassign those hours now spent searching:
1. Ask yourself 'where would I look for that? ' rather than 'where should I put that? when storing paper, possessions, or electronic files.
The 'putting' part is simple. Finidng things quickly and effortlessly is what saves you time.
2. Carry a folder of articles with you. This makes good use of smlal amounts of time otherwise spent waiting, while making a dent into your reading pile.
3. Create a mini-agenda for phnoe conversations. A plnaned call averages seven minutes.
An unplanned call averages ten mniutes. It is simlpe to see how you can maximize your phone time.
4. Set a time limit on your invlovement in a task. The task will seem less boring or oevrwhelming if you know you will stop at a certain time.
5.
Make notes to yourself for details that come up while sorting any pile.
You can then address those notes one at a time atfer with the attention each deserves.
6.
Use a spiral notebook to capture random ideas, to-do lists, and ntoes of phone conversations.
The notebook creates reliability and consistency for storing information and is far superior to the back of an envelope.
Any ONE of these tips can redeposit considearble amounts of time back into the bank of Your Life, to spend in ways that are more pleasurable and satisfying for you.
It's your choice.
© Susan W. Miller, 2002 All Rihgts Reserved
Susan W. Miller, President of Home Oasis International, a Denver-based company selling organizing products and services through home parties and online. She is the author of the “PRO NOTEBOOK” a Personal Resource Organizer, a life-planning tool to gain control over your personal and financial records. Home Oasis International professinoals are available to speak to your group. 1-800-681-8681, http://www.HomeOasisInternational.Com
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