3 Ways to Stop Fighting Your To Do List by @_ChelleShock

by Michelle Nickolaisen | Featured Contributor

Many business owners have a love-hate relationship with their to-do list – they know it’s a good idea to have one, in theory, but in actuality, they struggle with it. They feel stifled- or, just as often, intimidated and overwhelmed – by it, they feel like it messes with their focus, is too hard to manage, and so on.

Identify The Time Wasters And Learn To Remove Them From Your Life

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I find the concept of time very contradictory. We always complain of not having enough time yet we seldom use this resource mindfully. People who do not find time to complete their projects or to meet deadline spend hours on Twitter or Facebook. It is important to learn to manage our time. But it is equally important to know how not to waste time. Do you waste your precious time on mindless activities? Can you identify the time wasters that are eating into your time and making you inefficient? Check out yourself.

Basic Time Management Tools

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Time. What a precious commodity nowadays.  Sometimes we try to make things so difficult, but does time management have to be difficult. The reality is that you cannot manage time, because time keeps ticking and never stops. It waits for no one.  So when we talk about time management and time management skills we are really talking about managing ourselves and what we do with our time. So how do we manage ourselves to make the best use of our time? And what are some basic ways we can manage ourselves in order to do just that?

Two People Who Could Help You Manage Your Time

An agonist. While an antagonist blocks an action, the agonist causes it to happen. Even more than a muse, a professional agonist might be exactly what you need to provoke your best work.

And of course, a procrastinatrix. Someone who’s only job is to hold you accountable for getting it done, now, not later.

Maybe It’s Time To Toss In The Towel

Here’s a take on time management I haven’t tried before. Let’s pause for a minute and try to determine why it is that even though we’ve read a million time management books, attended any number of seminars, and purchased every gadget and organizer we could get our hands on, we continue to feel like time is managing us instead of like we are in control of our own time.

What Gets YOU Through The Day?

I’m in a risk taking mood tonight. So, I’m going to go out on a limb with this blog post. “What’s the risk,” you ask. The risk is that I write this blog post and I don’t get any comments. Oh how embarrassing that would be. I suppose after a certain period of time I’d just have to take the post down. Oh well, here goes.

Food For Thought

Here’s a very short video containing a great time management tip, a word about procrastination and some motivation all rolled up into 1:28. I’m sure you can find a little over a minute to spend watching this video. You won’t regret it.

Let me know what you think!

Are You Too Busy To Manage Your Time?

Wow! I have been just buried for about the past 6 weeks. With any luck, at least a tiny bit of that busy-ness will translate into some revenue. What I’m seeing though is that I’m so busy, I sometimes forget to employ my own time management tips and tricks.

I’ve been making lists. Most of the time. But I still find myself getting distracted and trying to do three or four things at once when none of those things are on my list.

Six Steps To Great Time Management

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I’m reading The Ultimate Sales Machine, by Chet Holmes. In it he lists The Six Steps To Great Time Management and I want to share those steps with you.

Time Management Quotes

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This collection of time management quotes may help you make the most of your day and manage your time more wisely.

“Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.”
H. Jackson Brown, Jr

“How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most”
Stephen R. Covey

“A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.”
Charles Darwin

“It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?”
Henry David Thoreau

“Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.”
M. Scott Peck

“Never leave ’till tomorrow which you can do today.”
Benjamin Franklin

“One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.”
Stephen R. Covey

“Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.”
Auguste Rodin

“Don’t count the days, make the days count.”
Muhammad Ali

“Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.”
William Penn

“It always seems impossible until it’s done.”
Nelson Mandela

“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.”
Napoleon Hill

“Do we need more time? Or do we need to be more disciplined with the time we have?”
Kerry Johnson

“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.”
Michael Althsuler