I have been working on these three steps - have you?
If you have some others, comment or email and tell me about them.
Two more tips that I have been using and that have been useful are:
1. Track Your Time - do a search for free egg-timer software and you will get a few. Choose one that you like and download it. Then, when you are logging on to Facebook, Twitter, your email account or researching something, set a time limit and set your timer.
I have saved a lot of time with this little device. I love and can wander around Twitter forever. I will tell myself that I have 15 minutes and look at the (very tiny and oh, so quiet) clock in the bottom of my computer screen and promise, promise, promise that I will look at it again. Right!! 45 minutes later, I am irked at myself again! Sound familiar?
But, with my handy-dandy timer device, I know when that 15 min is up and I might say one last thing, but I have trained myself to click the X and close it.
Time Saved: oooodles
2. Just Say NO - Oh, this one is so much harder and I actually have more to say about it that I will write later. (My husband would say "Imagine that, her having more to say!) But, this is becoming increasingly important amongst the "noisy" internet.
There are A LOT of good things out there (as there are bad) so it is easy to keep jumping like a grasshopper all over the place, never landing long enough to make a difference. Especially when you are new to the information!
I needed to learn to say NO to new forms of information, no matter how good they sounded, and focus on the ones I already have!
How about you? What do you need to say "YES" to? What do you need to study and apply before you move on?
Time Saved: more oooodles
Here's to Inspired Time Management!
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