Time Management Tips For Busy Entrepreneurs

Time management is very crucial especially for business and entrepreneurial setting. To be able to manage your time effectively here are some tips.

First, we need to set an initial framework of your mental construct of what time is.

My question is, “What is time to you? How much do you have? Where does it come from? How much is a lot and how much is a little?”

For some people, 15 minutes is a long time. 10 years may be a long time. Time is a mental construct and emotional feeling of what we have.

If you are in love with what you are doing — time suddenly disappears.

On the other hand, if you don’t enjoy what you are doing, it seems to last FOREVER !
First thing that you should do is to take a moment, grab a pen and paper and write down what physical, emotional and mental state do you have to be in for time to disappear?
Next is how you structure and organize and use the time you have. To do this, you would have to believe that time is valuable. What would you have to believe (about life, love, success, etc) to lock in the thought and the mental construct that TIME is literally the most important asset you have in your entire life?

Once time is gone, it is gone.

For other people, they believe that money and work is more important. But if you think about it, if money is gone, you can always work and get money back. With time, once it is gone, you can never have it back.
So the next question is, how do you choose to invest your time?
Personally, I prioritize investment of time in this order:
1. Sleep
2. Fitness/workout
3. Eat
4. Work

Work with the most valuable parts of your life first.

Put the most important values first such as yourself and family. The rest can go to a project that you believe and you are passionate about that you think you will succeed.
Maximize productivity by chunking it out ideally in certain days of the week.
There are several strategies that you can be able to manage your time effectively:
1. Single focus technique. This is where you work projects one at a time with absolutely ZERO distractions
2. Pomodoro technique. Work/Focus/Go for 30 minutes on — 5 minutes off, 30 minutes on — 5 minutes off, 30 minutes on — 5 minutes off (this way you can be able to improve mental agility through short breaks thus maximizing your performance and increasing your productivity)
Organize how effective you were and how consistent you were by finding someone to hold you accountable.
The next step is showing up 100%.
If you can make that happen, you will see your productivity increase!

Based on research, in an average Corporate America setting within 60 minutes there is only 20% productivity completed which means that there is 40 minutes of distraction, people getting off track, etc in an hour. This results into people doing multitasking that could lead them to losing time every time you switch back and forth.

Time management is getting you to consistently deliver and execute on these tools that gets you to maximize performance. There are 2 ways to do that:
1. Get a coach that can help you with it. We at Performance Coach University can help you (and your team) manage your time effectively to help you increase productivity, performance and results.
2. Find an accountability partner that can hold you accountable and really push each other to get you to do that kind of stuff
To your success,
Jairek Robbins
www.JairekRobbins.com

I’m Jairek Robbins.